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Speaking with ignorance and not malice: how is this different from say what the French Foreign Legion was? I don’t know that history.
The French Foreign Legion is an elite force, open to non french individuals to enlist.
Because it is, by nature, a multicultural force, the legion has a specific trainning regime to develop unit spirit. These are not cannon fodder: any individual that can make the FFL, can after three years of service request french citizenship.
Russia seems to be just trying to find bodies to fill the ranks.