The Kremlin has begun offering migrant workers from Central Asia cash bonuses and a Russian passport if they join the depleted ranks of its forces now fighting in Ukraine. Recruiters have approached potential recruits at migration offices, homes and even mosques to try to lure them into the Russian armed forces.
Moscow hopes to recruit 400,000 more soldiers this year to fight in Ukraine, but tens of thousands of draft-age Russian men have already fled the country following President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Now, Russia is struggling to ensure it has sufficient troops in place to fight off an expected counteroffensive from Kyiv.
RFE/RL’s Tajik-language news service has a video that appears to show a Russian military recruiter giving a speech at a popular mosque in the city of Chelyabinsk, located in west-central Russia near the Ural mountains. Another video shows a man in a Russian uniform promoting military service to a group of men, some of whom were speaking Uzbek. The recruiters are telling them they don’t even have to take a mandatory medical check-up.
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