During the international legal forum in St. Petersburg on June 27, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that Russian authorities have identified 30,000 migrants who have recently become Russian citizens who are not registered for military service . This is stated in the latest intelligence report of the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain.
Bastrykin boasted that 10,000 of these migrants have already been sent to the operational zone in Ukraine. He claims that there they will "dig trenches" and will perform other duties in the rear areas.
British intelligence noted that independent Russian media had previously reported that the country's law enforcement agencies were conducting a campaign of legal harassment against migrants, particularly from Central Asia, in an attempt to get them to join the army in exchange for citizenship or to avoid arrest on trumped-up charges.
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This is likely to be another ingenious means of bolstering military recruitment while trying to limit the impact on sections of the Russian population that have more political power, the British MoD noted.