Venerdì mattina, alle 07:41 ora locale, il vulcano Dukono sull’isola di Halmahera (Maluku Settentrionale, Indonesia) ha registrato una violenta eruzione, scagliando nel cielo una colonna di cenere alta circa 10 chilometri. L’esplosione ha colto di sorpresa un gruppo di venti escursionisti che si trovava in prossimità del cratere, causando la morte di tre persone: due cittadini di Singapore di 27 e 30 anni e una donna indonesiana originaria di Ternate, la città più vicina alla montagna.

I diciassette sopravvissuti del gruppo sono stati individuati, evacuati in sicurezza dai soccorritori e trasferiti in ospedale. I corpi delle tre vittime si trovano invece ancora sulla montagna. Il capo della polizia di Halmahera Nord, Erlichson Pasaribu, ha confermato che le operazioni di recupero sono ostacolate dalle continue eruzioni, dalla difficoltà del terreno e dai forti boati provenienti dal cratere. Le squadre di soccorso hanno sospeso le ricerche venerdì sera per riprenderle sabato, supportate da due portatori del gruppo escursionistico rimasti in quota per indicare la posizione esatta delle salme.

Le condizioni sul sito restano critiche. Aldy Salabia, un residente locale che assiste le squadre di ricerca, ha confermato alla testata della BBC indonesiana: “Dal rifugio, possiamo vedere cenere e materiale roccioso espulsi continuamente”.

L'articolo “I vulcani attivi non possono mai essere trattati come mete turistiche. I social danno percezione distorta del rischio”: il Dukono erutta mentre 20 escursionisti sono vicino al cratere, tre sono morti proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Ukraine holds personal data on each of the nearly 46,000 foreigners it has identified as signing with Russia’s army since 2022, Dmytro Usov, secretary of its prisoner-of-war coordination headquarters, said on 19 October. If the current pace holds, he expects this year’s contracts to reach Moscow’s plan. Meanwhile, a survey of captured foreigners gave a split answer on how many knew they were heading to war.

Usov said 41% of surveyed foreign POWs signed at enlistment offices and recruitment points, which the headquarters reads as a sign of a systematic campaign. He also said the hiring is meant to ease the social and budget burden of Russia’s own losses. Russia has long turned to foreigners to offset shortages in its regular forces. In April, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) said enlistment offices had reportedly been assigned regional quotas.

A count built name by name

Usov, a brigadier general and secretary of Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, spoke at the international conference Crimea Global. He said Russia’s Defense Ministry has signed 45,959 foreigners from 151 countries. Ukraine’s records include each one’s rank, dog tag, and contract date.

The figure counts everyone who signed, not only those serving now. In April, Usov said his count left out North Korea’s regular troops, that 25–30% more recruits were likely still unidentified, and that at least 5,149 foreign recruits had died, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

This year’s contracts near the plan

Contracts have grown every year: 94 in 2022, 4,067 in 2023, 8,877 in 2024, and 16,085 in 2025. Some names surface late. At the same April event, Interfax-Ukraine reported, Usov had put 2025 at 13,997 and said the headquarters adds newly identified foreigners every month.

For 2026, Russia’s Defense Ministry planned 18,500 foreign contracts. Ukraine knows of 16,168 so far, roughly level with all of 2025. Another 668 contracts still have no year assigned. If the same dynamic holds, Usov said, the ministry will fully meet its plan and may even exceed it.

He named Indonesia, Peru, Chad, and Zimbabwe among the ten countries that drove the growth in recruits, Ukrinform reported. At the same time, he said, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry and POW agencies have cut recruitment in some countries and stopped it in others.

What captured foreigners told Ukraine

Ukrainian forces have captured citizens of 59 countries since the full-scale invasion began. Uzbeks, Tajiks, Belarusians, and Colombians are among the largest groups.

In the headquarters’ survey of foreign POWs, nearly half said they knew they would fight Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Another 28% said they didn’t know, 14.8% weren’t sure, and 13.8% said they were deceived. The headquarters ran the survey, and neither report gave a sample size or explained how the shares fit together. Usov said the results showed most knew where they were going. Almost 47% said they signed up for Russian citizenship.

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