On Thursday 12 March, in a joint resolution adopted by 479 votes to 17 with 43 abstentions, MEPs called on the EU and its Member States to impose targeted sanctions on the individuals and entities responsible for trafficking and recruiting foreign nationals into the Russian army, particularly from Africa, South Asia and Cuba, to fight in Ukraine.
These practices, like labour exploitation in the context of war, “are grave violations of e human rights and international humanitarian law...