- 8,527 viewsDuration: 9:07Families of Kenyan men fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine are appealing to the government to repatriate them after some of their sons claimed they were dying and suffering in the war zone. The family of John Njeru Kariuki, one of the men, is pleading for government assistance to bring their son home after he was shot in the head in Ukraine. This week, foreign and diaspora affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi said 200 Kenyans are fighting for Russia.