Kenyan is keenly following on the plight of natives held in Ukraine.
Kenyans are among Africans being held as prisoners of war by the authorities in Kyiv after they were lured into joining the Russian army to aid Moscow in its confrontation with Ukraine.
One of the Kenyans is Evans Kibet.
The 36-year-old had flown to Russia for a running competition when his host tricked him into taking a Russian military offer.
He briefly trained with the Russian forces before he was sent to the battle filed.
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Kibet surrendered to the Ukrainian forces which have held him captive to date; but he prefers that as he is worried that returning to Russia might hand him a death eventuality.
He fears he might be killed.
Weighing in on the matter, Kenya's Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing'oei assured Kibets family and Kenyans at large that the government was working to resolve the matter and secure the release of the Kenyans held in Ukraine.
"We are keenly following information on three or four Kenyans allegedly trafficked to Russia and currently held as POWs by Ukraine. We shall provide additional information. In the meantime, we assure the families that our Mission in Moscow and our teams at HQ are pursuing the matter with all diligence," Sing'oei said via an update via X.
This would not be the first instance in which Sing'oei is intervening to salvage Kenyans held with authorities outside Kenya.
This year, the PS played a pivotal role in securing the release of Kenyan Stephen Munyakho who awaited death sentence in Saudi Arabia.
Munyakho had been convicted of murder and a death sentence was passed for him, with an alternative of over Ksh 120 million as blood money.
Kenya, through its Foreign mission, embarked on negotiating with the Saudi authorities and the berieved famiily in Jeddah.
The authorities in Nairobi succeeded in convincing the Saudi authorities to stay the planned execution of Munyakho as they strived to negotiate in favour of the convict.
In July this year, Sing'oei announced Kenya and Saudi Arabia having reached an agreement, with the Ksh. 129 million blood money being settled to secure his release.
Munyakho, who had been in detention for 13 years, would later return in Kenya on July 29.
Elsewhere, Sing'oei was actively involved in the efforts to prevent Kenyan Margaret Nduta from being executed in Vietnam where she had been convicted of drug trafficking.
After a while of negotiations between Kenya and the Vietnamese authorities and later a successful appeal, the Kenyan was spared from the death penalty.
On July 31, Vietnam's Supreme Court commuted Nduta's sentence to life imprisonment.
She would now have the option to apply for clemency from the Vietnamese president.
