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2:22 CAT | 18 Jan 2023
Screen grab: Twitter / @JamboFM_Radio
Leading Tanzanian newspapers have largely ignored a video circulating on Twitter of a memorial for a national who was allegedly killed in Bakhmut, Ukraine, last October while fighting for Russia’s Wagner Group.
Tarimo Neves Raymond was a student in Russia and was reportedly recruited by Wagner from a prison in Moscow.
The video shows men in military fatigues holding candles around a casket.
A portrait picture of Raymond, two medals and a certificate are placed on the casket draped with a Wagner flag.
None of the major Tanzanian news outlets have so far carried the story and there has been no comment from the government’s official channels.
Last September a Zambian national died in Ukraine while fighting for Wagner, while several “Black Russians” from the Central African Republic are believed to have been recruited by the paramilitary company.
On 1 January, Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin purportedly flaunted a mercenary from Cote d’Ivoire who had joined fighting in Ukraine.
Kutokana na ripoti ambazo bado hazijathibitishwa, Mtanzania Tarimo Nemes Raymond (31), amesemekana kufariki nchini Ukraine akiwapigania Urusi.
Pata habari zaidi kuhusu tukio hili kupitia https://t.co/TBv2efmVn4 #JamboFM #habari #tanzania #urusi #ukraine #russia #tarimo #news pic.twitter.com/8hfXjNg3VN
— JamboFM (@JamboFM_Radio) January 17, 2023
Tarimo Nemes Raymond, a Tanzanian student stuck in a Russian prison joined Wagner and was killed in battle against the Ukrainian Army. pic.twitter.com/u41L2yUF5P
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 17, 2023
Source: BBC
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