Over 80 thousand migrants who recently received citizenship of the Russian Federation but did not register for military service have been rounded up by Russian law enforcement forces and subsequently every fourth of them has been sent to the frontline in Ukraine. The statement was made by the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, at the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg, as quoted by the Russian press.
“Already 20 thousand ‘young’ citizens of Russia, who for some reason don’t like to live in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, are on the front line,” Bastrâkin said, referring to the frontline in Ukraine.
According to the Russian official, the military investigation department, together with the Russian Interior Ministry and the Russian National Guard, has been ordered to conduct regular raids on places where migrants are being held in order to “catch” those who evade registering for military service, IPN reports.
At the same time, Aleksandr Bastrykin noted that migrants who have received Russian citizenship do not go to military registration and enlistment offices precisely because they could be “sent to the front lines”. At the same time, he said, there are already “heroes” among the migrants. For example, he named a native of Tajikistan, who, in order to obtain Russian citizenship, signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and became one of the participants in the “operation pipeline” to liberate the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region from the Ukrainian army.
