LakshmipurMaksudur Rahman paid a broker $9,800 for a janitor’s job.
Within weeks he was on the front line of Russia’s war, he said.
A broker takes the fee, then recruits sign Russian-language papers they cannot read and report to an army camp.
Russian officials expect a shortfall of 3.1 million workers by 2030.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans critical
- traces the recruitment pipeline: a local agent, a 1.2 million taka debt, and a Russian-language contract signed unread
Sources: Global Voices