In the war against her Ukrainianh Russia it doesn’t just use Chinese and Iranian-made drones. It uses North Korean soldiers or even ballistic missiles from Pyongyang. The Financial Times even claims that we will soon see fighters from Yemen fighting alongside Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

A publication of the newspaper states that the Islamist militia of Houthi recruits young people in Yemen on behalf of the Russian armed forces and speaks of “human trafficking”. It is of particular interest that the recruitment in Yemen is carried out by a company of a well-known Houthi politician. A recruitment contract available to the newspaper shows that Yemenis are being recruited for the Russian army as early as July.

If the information in the British newspapers is correct, “then this would be extremely worrying,” the German Foreign Ministry said. On the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers Summit in Italy, Foreign Minister Analena Burbock said: “If the information is confirmed it will be further proof that in the conduct of the war the Russian president Putin knows no limits”.

The internationalization of war

The risk of a “world war” is “serious and real”, warns Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. So, the question is reasonable: Is there a risk of further internationalization of the war in Ukraine? Or is the internationalization of war already a reality? Valery Zalushny, former head of the Ukrainian armed forces, now Ukraine’s ambassador to Great Britain, believes that World War III has already begun, because many countries have been involved for a long time.

According to the latest estimates, around 700,000 Russian soldiers have either died or been injured in Ukraine. This is one of the reasons why around 12,000 troops from North Korea have been sent by leader Kim Jong Un to Russia to defend Russian territory in the Kursk region.

61% against Taurus delivery in Kyiv

Speaking to DW about the report on the Yemeni fighters, Roderich Kiesewetter, the foreign policy expert of the Christian Democratic Group in the federal parliament, states: “Russia is facing huge problems with shortages of raw materials and personnel. He is therefore forced to pay large sums to incentivize Russian soldiers or promise them debt forgiveness. It is therefore not surprising that even fighters from Yemen are being recruited. There are indications that these are not Houthi terrorists, but Yemenis, whom Russians bring to Russia under false promises and then forcefully recruit them for the war in Ukraine.”

German politicians warn of further expansion of the war, both militarily and economically. During the election campaign ahead of the early German elections on February 23, Chancellor Olaf Solz intends to present himself as the “Peace Chancellor”. Despite Kiev’s persistent requests, it categorically rules out supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with the German-Swedish Taurus ballistic missile, which is capable of hitting targets deep in the Russian hinterland.

Political analysts are taking it for granted that the war in Ukraine will be at the center of the election campaign in Germany, less than 100 days before the election.

According to the latest poll (Deutschlandtrend) of the German public television ARD, which was conducted by the infratest-dimap institute, 61% of the representative sample was against the delivery of the Taurus system to Ukraine.

Editor: Stefanos Georgakopoulos