"Their" do not give out: in the Russian Federation mobilize migrants and foreigners to restore losses - ISW

Russian politicians have decided that they would send migrants to fight in Ukraine. To do this, they try to interest potential fighters - they offer a passport of the Russian Federation to their wives and children. The Russian authorities have decided to use citizenship to replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which are lost at the front in Ukraine. Thanks to innovations, citizenship can be obtained within a month, but you need to become a military.

The situation with migrants, foreigners and army of Russia is referred to in the analytical report of the Institute for War Study (ISW), published on January 4. Analysts drew attention to two decrees of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The first is to simplify the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for foreigners who have concluded an annual contract for service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, private military companies (PECs) and in volunteer battalions.

The procedure will now take from one to six months and without standard formalities. Such actions indicate that the Kremlin tries to replenish these people with an army, which suffered losses in the war in Ukraine, explained on the portal. The second decree refers to citizenship for persons who left Crimea before the annexation of 2014.

From now on, such persons - citizens of Ukraine and stateless people - as well as their closest relatives, have been entitled to the Russian Federation and service in the army. The analytical report states that the provisions of Putin's decrees "formalize" the call to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Previously, the Kremlin could not determine what it needed visitors from Central Asia - as cheap work hands or as soldiers at the front.

However, from now on, they seem to have decided - migrants will mobilize to the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The portal also mentioned the statement of Russian politician Alexander Hinstein. He stated that he had helped a foreign mercenary who served in Wagner PEC and returned to his homeland, where he could be punished for participation in the war. According to him, this person was "saved.

" "It does not issue its citizens of the Russian Federation,"-said the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy in Telegram. Earlier, the focus talked about the raids that the Russian authorities staged for migrants on New Year's Eve. According to Russia's explanations, police failures in major cities-in Moscow and St. Petersburg. About three thousand people were detained - someone was presented with orders about deportation, someone - summons.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Center for Resistance reported that the Russian authorities are planning to take on military registration of 17-year-old young men living in temporarily occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya region. They indicate that they do this for the next accelerated mobilization to the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and sending to the front line.