In October 2025, as his plumbing contract in Qatar neared its end, Clinton Nyapara Mogesa called his brother, Vincent, in Kenya, to say he had found another job—this time, in Russia. He did not say what kind of work it was. Two days after arriving in Moscow, Clinton told Vincent that he was beginning military training. Weeks later, he said he was waiting to be deployed. After that, the calls stopped. The Mogesa family learned what had happened months later from Ukrainian military intelligence,