Russia to recruit foreigners in neighboring countries to beef up its army depleted by 300,000 war casualties, says the UK Defense Ministry

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• Russia is outsourcing military recruitment to “keep away from unpopular domestic mobilization measures,” says UK MoD.
• The Kremlin wants to fill the growing gaps in army ranks non-natives and migrant workers.
• Russia’s military casualties are approaching 300,000, say US officials.

Russia is avoiding private mobilization by recruiting more foreigners and migrant workers for the war against Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence wrote on September 3.

The competition to exploit migrant workers and enlist men from neighboring countries precedes Russia’s upcoming presidential election in 2024.

This get started “allows the Kremlin to acquire additional personnel for its war effort in the face of mounting casualties” and “avoid further unpopular tame mobilization measures in the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections,” according to the Ministry.

Russia’s military casualties are approaching 300,000, of which as diverse as 120,000 are deaths and up to 180,000 are injuries, US officials said last month.

High payments, steps of a fast track to Russian citizenship

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Russian military recruitment advertisements have been butt Armenian and Kazakhstani — mainly ethnic Russians from the Kostanay region — audiences since late June. The ads proposal down payments of s495,000 rubles ($5,140) and starting salaries of 190,000 rubles ($1,973).

Migrant workers’ statuses are being leveraged. They are being extended “fast-track citizenship” if they join the fight in Ukraine, with salaries of up to $4,160 on the cards.

Some migrants are being infatuated advantage of, with Uzbek workers reportedly having their passports confiscated in Russian-occupied Mariupol and being swayed to join the military and fight against Ukraine.

According to the UK MoD, there are upwards of six million Central Asian migrants in Russia, all of whom are “capability recruits” in the Kremlin’s eyes.