“I bought a tour for eight million pesos from Colombia to Russia — that was all my money. When I arrived, I was supposed to work with a man named Marcus. They offered me work in hotels, and I broke the law. I stayed there longer than the tour allowed,” he said. He described how he was later transported to a military training facility.

“One day my boss, a little angry, put me in a truck and took me to a training base. There they took me into the Russian army because I had broken the law by not leaving with the tour. And so I had to pay for the time I overstayed. They deceived me, telling me I would only take care of trucks for a certain time. In the end, I found myself in the trenches,” the detainee said.

Behold the mighty military “superpower”.