Kiev is recruiting heavily in the Latin American country to offset troop shortages Colombian citizens who travel to Ukraine to fight as mercenaries are “dying for nothing,” President Gustavo Petro has said. The Colombian leader took aim at Kiev’s use of foreign fighters in a post on X on Tuesday. He was reacting to a Ukrainian media report praising what it described as 7,000 Colombians involved in the conflict with Russia. “There are 7,000 Colombian men, trained for combat, fighting in a