Russian authorities sent at least 20,000 naturalized citizens on the battlefield in Ukraine who did not apply for military service, said 20. Maja Aleksandar Bastrikin, President of the Russian investigative committee, State Agency TASS.
This statement comes at the moment of reinforced pressure on the migrant population in Russia, while the Kremlin tries to compensate for the lack of soldiers at the front.
“For 20,000 ‘youth’ citizens’ citizens, who do not like living in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, is in the first lines of the front,” Bastrurg said in St. Petersburg.
He added that he ordered military investigators, the police and the National Guard to regularly conduct raids in neighborhoods where migrants live, with the aim of finding those who avoid military registration. Bastrikin previously claimed that many foreign citizens “to avoid recruits, and forcibly sending naturalized citizens on the Front described as a” trick “, while pressing migrants.
According to Western intelligence sources, which is transmitted by Wall Street Journal, Russia is trying to recruit between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers per month.
After partial mobilization 2022. year caused a large wave of dissatisfaction and an escape of more than 261,000 people from the country, Kremlin avoids the reintroduction of a mass mandatory military service. Instead, he implements intensive recruitment campaigns and offers financial incentives.
On 31. Marta President Vladimir Putin signed an order on spring mobilization of 160,000 men, which is the largest mobilization call in the last 14 years. Although recruits should not be sent to combat zones, human rights organizations and family families report that many are forced to sign contracts lead them right to Ukrainian front.
In the summer 2024. The Russian parliament adopted a law that enables the authorities to take away citizenship to naturalized persons who are not registered for military service.
(Vijesti.ba)
