British Intelligence Service indicated that Moscow was trying to “meet the target of 400,000 volunteers”

MADRID, May 8. (EUROPEAN PRESS) –

The British Intelligence Service confirmed this Monday that the Russian Army is recruiting migrant workers from Central Asian countries to participate in the invasion of Ukraine, which were released in February 2022 by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Russian military recruiters have been working with migrant workers from Central Asia who are in Russia to serve (in the ranks of the Russian Army) in Ukraine,” they said, according to a series of messages published by the UK Ministry of Defence via your account on the social network Twitter.

Because of this, they mentioned that “recruiters have visited mosques and migration offices for their recruiting efforts.” “In the migration office, Tajik and Uzbek speaking staff try to recruit migrants on a regular basis,” they added.

In this case, they referred to information from the Radio Free Europe station which states that recruiters “offer a signing bonus of $2,390 (approx. 2,163 euros) and a salary of up to $4,160 (approx. 3,765 euros) per month.”

“Migrants have also been offered to expedite the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship by between six months and one year instead of the usual five years,” they stressed, before noting that the offer “may get some migrant workers to sign off”.

The British Intelligence Service has specified that “these recruits may be sent to the front lines in Ukraine where casualty rates are very high”, without further specifying.

“The recruitment of migrants is part of the efforts of the Russian Ministry of Defense to meet the target of 400,000 volunteers to fight in Ukraine. The authorities are almost certainly trying to delay the new mandatory mobilization as long as possible to minimize internal unrest.” established.