{"id":222139,"date":"2026-04-25T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222139"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:49:30","slug":"homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222139","title":{"rendered":"HOMEWARD BOUND: South Africans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine are on their way home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 17 South Africans who were trapped on the front line in Ukraine are out of the war zone. They were allegedly recruited by the MK party&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 17 South Africans who were trapped on the front line in Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-scaled.jpg",2560,1390,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-768x417.jpg",640,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-1024x556.jpg",640,348,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-1536x834.jpg",1536,834,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-2048x1112.jpg",2048,1112,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-1024x556.jpg",1024,556,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222139-homeward-bound-south-africans-lured-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-are-on-their-way-home-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}