Media: Tanzanian national killed in war in Ukraine, recruited by Wagner PMC

BBC

Tarimo Nemes, a 33-year-old Tanzanian national, died.

This was reported by the BBC.

The family learned of Nemes' death three weeks ago:

We last spoke to him on 17 October, when he was already a member of Wagner. Then in December we received information from his friends about his death

Tarimo Nemes studied in Moscow at the Russian University of Technology, but in 2021 he was convicted of drug-related crimes. According to his relatives, he was promised release from prison in exchange for joining the PMC.

We shall remind you that American intelligence estimates that there are currently around 40,000 Russian prisoners involved in combat operations in Ukraine.