Russia uses migrants to boost war efforts in Ukraine trenches
1:21 PM EDT, June 28, 2024
The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Aleksandr Bastrykin, revealed that Russian authorities are using foreigners to support their war efforts in Ukraine. It turns out that migrants are being sent to the front lines to dig trenches.
Much of the information provided by Russian media or government representatives is part of propaganda efforts. These reports are elements of the information war conducted by the Russian Federation.
The Interfax news agency reports that during the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg, Bastrykin stated that Moscow "located" over 30,000 foreign migrants who recently acquired Russian citizenship but did not register for military duty in Russia.
"We have identified over 30,000 migrants who received citizenship but did not want to enlist in the military. We registered them, and about 10,000 have already been sent to the special military operation zone," Bastrykin boasted during a panel on migration legislation in Russia. He described this move as "enforcing the Russian constitution."
Raids on factories across the country
Politico reports that Russian law enforcement is conducting special raids on factories and enterprises across the country to locate both legal and illegal migrants.
Current Time TV, citing its sources, reported that during each raid, authorities issue migrants with military conscription notices. Various Russian private companies are also hiring migrants to dig trenches in Ukraine. Some, according to media reports, do not pay for the work.
Politico states that Russians have already built hundreds of miles of "dragon's teeth" and other types of fortifications in parts of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson regions, which have been occupied since 2022.
