{"id":223116,"date":"2026-02-07T23:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-more-kenyans-killed-fighting-for-russian-forces-in-ukraine-war-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:36:56","slug":"kenya-2-more-kenyans-killed-fighting-for-russian-forces-in-ukraine-war-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-more-kenyans-killed-fighting-for-russian-forces-in-ukraine-war-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 2 More Kenyans Killed Fighting for Russian Forces in Ukraine War Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The bodies of two more Kenyans who were fighting for Russian forces in the Russia-Ukraine war have been identified, Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Intelligence (DIU) reported on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The remains of Ombwori Denis Bagaka (born January 30, 1987) and Wahome Simon Gititu (born May 21, 1991) were found near Lyman city in the Donetsk region, alongside the body of another Kenyan, Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, whose remains were confirmed last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">According to Ukrainian intelligence, all three men had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060445.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The bodies of two more Kenyans who were fighting for Russian forces in the Russia-Ukraine war have been identified, Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Intelligence (DIU) reported on Friday. The remains of Ombwori Denis Bagaka (born January 30, 1987) and Wahome Simon Gititu (born May 21, 1991) were found near Lyman city in the Donetsk region, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4377,5097,13340,4688,430,9058,4327,257,10143,254,16551,6618],"class_list":["post-223116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fighting","tag-forces","tag-identified","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-russian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}