Overview

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense released a Spanish-language TikTok video urging “strong and brave” foreigners to join the country’s armed forces.
• The portal joinuarmy.org advertises 109 military vacancies with salaries up to $2,380 per month but has no links on Ukraine’s official government websites.
• Digital verification platforms reveal the site was created five months ago and is hosted in San Francisco without clear ties to Kyiv’s defense ministry.
• Russian authorities have warned that foreign volunteers are legitimate military targets and have opened criminal trials against mercenaries serving with Ukrainian forces.
• The family of Mexican ex-officer Mario Alberto Lover Martínez remains unable to repatriate his remains after he was killed in a Russian drone strike on June 9.