This strategy is clever in the short term, given the lines of attack they’re leaning on in the information side of the war. What makes no sense though, is those people are exactly what Russia needs to fix its demographics problem.
Those people are population, potential labor and soldiers. Yeah, I understand, they want them to be Russian, not foreigners. But, y’know, Russification is kinda a thing. So, why aren’t they integrating this population as a resource and trying to Russify it, and instead just wasting it by using it as a piece for short-term political pressure? And then trying to patch up demographics by asking women to have more kids…?
I mean, in the long term this is just a drop in the bucket of European debates about immigration policy.