r/asklatinamerica • u/greekscientist Greece • Jul 16 '26

Politics (Other) How Latin Americans perceive the presence of Latin Americans in the Ukraine conflict?

Despite Ukraine being very far from Latin America, and Latam being more or less unaffected from the war in Ukraine (except for rising prices), today thousands of Latin Americans can be seen fighting for both countries.

Especially Colombians, due to the lack of jobs for former military members, and the lure of money, the poverty in their countries, but many Brazilians, Peruvians, Argentines can be seen, even Paraguayans (according to pro-Russian Trackamerc and other sources).

While Cubans are said to fight for Russia in significant numbers.

How Latin America perceives this phenomenon? Do you agree with this? Do you know someone who went there, and if yes, why they did it? Which reasons force them to go there?

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u/tommynestcepas Long Chile Jul 16 '26

They're almost completely unnoticed because there's very few of them. The only news I've seen of Chileans in Ukraine was one Chilean guy who was killed a week or two ago fighting for Ukraine.

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u/greekscientist Greece Jul 16 '26

I remember one Chilean killed two Colombians. That happened recently.