Kenyans fighting for Russia: Lured by lucrative job offers but sent to the front line

Kenyan families whose sons have been duped into fighting for Russia demand they be brought home.

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At first the family, who live in the Kenyan capital's crowded informal settlement of Kibera had been excited when he said he had found work abroad - it sounded like a rare break.

The 22-year-old had been doing casual labour in Nairobi - from selling groundnuts to construction jobs - and had long hoped to secure work in the Gulf.

But when his mother asked which country he was heading to, his reply shocked her.

"He showed me his phone and said: 'Look, it's Russia,'" Susan Kuloba told the BBC's Newsday programme.