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Jordan Urges Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens After Two Jordanians Killed

02:35 PM, 11/28/2025
Jordan Urges Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens After Two Jordanians Killed

Jordan has demanded that Russia stop illegally recruiting Jordanian citizens after two were killed while serving in the Russian military. The Foreign Ministry said it will "take all available measures" and urged Moscow to cancel contracts of Jordanians currently enlisted. Ukrainian and international reports allege that thousands of foreign fighters have joined Russian forces, with some claims pointing to recruits from North Korea and several African countries. Jordan warned that such recruitment violates domestic and international law and endangers its citizens.

Jordan has formally demanded that Russian authorities halt the illegal recruitment of Jordanian nationals after two citizens were reported killed while serving in the Russian military.

The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the warning on Thursday, addressing both Moscow and what it described as external online "entities" that are allegedly recruiting Jordanians on Russia's behalf. In a post on X, the ministry said it would "take all available measures" to stop further recruitment and urged Russia to cancel the contracts of any Jordanian citizens currently enlisted.

The ministry did not provide details about where or when the two Jordanians died, but said the recruitment violates Jordanian domestic law and international law and "endangers the lives of [its] citizens."

Context and international claims

While the ministry’s statement did not explicitly mention the war in Ukraine, several international and Ukrainian sources have documented widespread recruitment of foreign fighters for Russia’s conflict there. Ukrainian officials have said Moscow has recruited thousands of foreign fighters from many countries.

Brig. Gen. Dmytro Usov — citing Ukrainian figures — said Russia had recruited about 18,000 foreign fighters from 128 countries and reported that more than 3,300 foreign recruits had died while fighting for Russia.

Those figures are contested and vary by source. The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, citing Western officials, has reported allegations that North Korea may have sent a large contingent of troops to support Russia in 2024. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has also accused Moscow of recruiting at least 1,400 Africans from more than 30 countries using methods that range from deception to coercion.

Sybiha has warned that signing a contract with Russian forces can be extremely dangerous for foreign recruits, calling such contracts "effectively equivalent to signing a death sentence" and accusing Russian commanders of treating many foreign soldiers as expendable.

Jordan’s announcement underscores growing regional concerns about the exploitation of foreign nationals in overseas conflicts. The ministry said it would pursue diplomatic and legal options to prevent further recruitment and to protect Jordanian citizens abroad.

Note: Numbers and claims about the nationality and scale of foreign recruits come from Ukrainian and international reports and have not been independently verified in this statement.

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