A family in Ghana is pleading for assistance in locating their missing relative, who is believed to have been fighting in Ukraine on behalf of Russia. The family says the last time they were in contact with him was at the end of February last year, when he told them he was going for two weeks of military training.

Since then, all attempts to reach him have failed. When the family called both his Ghanaian and Russian phone numbers, they received messages stating that the numbers do not exist.

Lulu Gaboo spoke to Dr Vladmir Antwi Danso, a Researcher in the fields of international political economy, conflict, security and terrorism.