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How thousands of Cubans have answered adverts for £1,900-a-month building jobs in Russia - only to be hurled into Putin's frontline meat-grinder

Hoping to escape poverty in his native Cuba, 37-year-old Francisco Garcia was one of hundreds on the flight to Moscow - but knew the second he stepped off the plane he'd made a gigantic mistake.