Russia Solicits Migrants to Fight its War in Ukraine in Exchange for Citizenship

As the brutal war against Ukraine costs Russia’s army ever more casualties, recruitment drives for fresh replacements are now turning to migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus to fill the boots of the dead left behind by their prospective comrades. Meanwhile, Mikhail Matveyev, a Duma member, criticised "naturalised citizens’"reluctance to fight for Moscow, while he said the “indigenous people of Russia were dying for their homeland.”