‘I didn’t want a military job. I had never served before’A Kenyan athlete, now captive in Ukraine, was forced into joining the Russian army while visiting the country. The man, only identified as Evans, was captured by Ukrainian soldiers on the Vovchansk front in Kharkiv Oblast. Evans explained he was ‘tricked’ into joining the Russian army while he was visiting the country. In an interview with the 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian army, Evans said: “I ended up in Russia without knowing that I had been enlisted in the Russian army.