Source: Africa Publicity
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine has disclosed that two Nigerian citizens have been killed while fighting for Russia in Luhansk region.
A statement by the Directorate on Thursday, February 12, 2026, titled “Nigerians in a meat assault — the number of identified dead Russian mercenaries from Africa is rising,” says Hamzat Kazeen Kolawole (born April 3, 1983) and Mbah Stephen Udoka (born January 7, 1988) were discovered dead in the Luhansk region during an attempt to storm Ukrainian positions in late November.
The statement added that “Both served in the 423rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (military unit 91701) of the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division of the armed forces of the russian federation.”
It noted that “They signed contracts with the Russian army in the second half of 2025: Kolawole on August 29 and Udoka on September 28.”
Udoka, it says, “received no training whatsoever” and was deployed to occupied Ukrainian territory “just five days later,” while Kolawole’s training records are missing, though it is “highly likely that he also received no military training.”
Kolawole leaves behind a wife and three children in Nigeria.
According to the statement, “Both Nigerians were k!lled in late November during an attempt to storm Ukrainian positions in the Luhansk region. They never engaged in a firefight — the mercenaries were eliminated by a drone strike.”
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