In the world of Chinese social media, you don't have to look far to find them.
Russian military recruitment advertisements are being circulated on accounts with tens of thousands of followers.
The posts, which include Russian text that's translated into Mandarin, were being shared in the weeks before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the capture of two Chinese citizens fighting alongside Vladimir Putin's troops in his country's east.
Mr Zelenskyy claims Kyiv's intelligence agencies have identified hundreds of Chinese nationals fighting for the Russian military on the frontline in Ukraine.
Some of the posts offer recruits 400,000 Rubles ($7,700) to sign up and say: "Real men are here. Join us!"
Life insurance, pensions, tax benefits and the "status of a combat veteran" are among the other benefits listed on the post, being shared on Chinese Douyin, known as TikTok internationally.
Dr Natasha Kuhrt from the Department of War Studies at King's College London said she suspected "some arm of the Russian Ministry of Defence" was behind spreading the propaganda whether directly or through proxies.
"They [Russia] are reluctant to kind of dig further into their own population for various reasons," she said.
"There are reservists, for example, that could be called up and so on but … for political reasons they don't want to dig into that kind of reserve … Any mercenaries that can plug that gap is good."
The Kremlin has rubbished Mr Zelenskyy's allegations, which have been largely ignored by Russian state media outlets.
A content creator named Xiao Ai, with a following of more than 43,000 on Douyin, and whose location is set to somewhere inside Russia, shared another recruitment ad in early January.
In the video, which has attracted 56,900 likes and 20,000 comments, he said: "How desperately does Russia need people? It starts with 5.2 million Rubles."
He proceeds to say the Russian government will pay millions more Rubles on signing a contract and pay a monthly salary.
Dr Kuhrt said the posts tapped into Mr Putin's popularity in China and the masculinity associated with serving in war.
However, she said making money would be the key motivator for most recruits.
Another account, with far fewer followers, posted a cautionary note about what the user described as "worrying" messages popping up on the internet.
Screenshots of posts from what are described as "shady agencies" calling for the recruitment of as few as 10 to others asking for up to 100 personnel were shared on it.
The post warns: "Please think very carefully before making any decisions. Once the bow is drawn, there's no turning back! Life is truly precious — how can it be thrown away so lightly?"
The post details a "joint China-Russia recruitment notice for wartime logistics nursing staff". It says men and women aged under 55 are being asked to sign up to provide medical care for the wounded.
A monthly salary of 20,000 Yuan ($4,400) paid for by the "Chinese side", includes food, accommodation and return flights to China after the war ends.
Dr Kuhrt said while it's not surprising to hear Chinese citizens were fighting for Russia, there was no proof linking the ads to any military strategy from Beijing.
"It tells us that … Chinese citizens are just as interested in earning money as citizens of other countries.
"Due to the very strong relationship between Russia and China, we're going to be wanting it to seem like more than that.
"There is no evidence certainly linking these people to the Beijing government."
Mr Zelenskyy says the two Chinese citizens his forces captured had identity documents, including bank cards, proving who they were.
A day after making his announcement, a video was posted on his official Instagram account which included interviews with two men who identified themselves as Chinese.
They both said they had been fighting with Russian troops.
"It was my first deployment, my first combat mission," one claimed.
"I never fired a single shot the whole time."
The other said Ukrainian troops had saved his life on the battlefield.
Mr Zelenskyy's claims about capturing the two Chinese men has been verified by a top US military official.
Ukraine's leader described the incident as proof another country had entered the war — something Beijing has rebuked.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Wednesday said his country tells its citizens to "stay away from armed conflict zones", including Ukraine.
"We are a firm supporter and active promoter of the peaceful settlement of the crisis," he said.
Dr Kuhrt said there was no rational reason why the Chinese Government would get involved.
"China is already gaining certain things … by just being on the sidelines.
"It's paying for cheap oil; it's getting cheap oil … it's providing some dual-use technology to Russia. But there's plausible deniability, because, you know, no one can really prove that.
"I don't think that it would make sense, really, for China to decide to send troops," she said.
The inference China could be sending troops to fight for Russia comes amid a delicate geopolitical backdrop.
The United States has been attempting to broker a ceasefire and has met separately with Russia and Ukraine on multiple occasions.
Although, progress has been slow, with both Kyiv and Moscow accusing each other of not being serious about peace.
While Ukraine has agreed to a US-led ceasefire proposal, Russia has not.
Mr Zelenskyy told a gathering of military chiefs in Brussels on Friday: "As of now, we have information that at least several hundred Chinese nationals are fighting as part of Russia's occupation forces."
"This means Russia is clearly trying to prolong the war, even by using Chinese lives."
Ukraine's president previously said revelations it had found Chinese nationals fighting with Russia required a response from the US.
That's yet to materialise, but Mr Zelenskyy's request comes as already strained relations between the White House and Beijing are completely up-ended, amid a trade war.
On Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia was not trying to draw China into the war.
"This is not the case. China takes a balanced position. China is our strategic partner, friend and comrade," Peskov said. "Zelenskyy is wrong."
Beijing has previously denied allegations on multiple occasions its supplying military equipment and so-called "dual-use" items to aid its close ally's invasion of Ukraine.
Both Russia and Ukraine are estimated to have sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties over the course of the past three years.
Last year, North Korea sent thousands of troops to fight alongside Mr Putin's army to help repel a Ukrainian invasion of Russia's Kursk region.
