30.07.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The Russian government has decided to use a cynical method to plug the hole of catastrophic shortage of soldiers at the front. And if the main candidates for slaughter were initially migrants from Central Asian countries, now they want to force residents of the occupied part of Ukraine who received a passport of the aggressor country to “work off” their citizenship. And not only traitors.
What the Russian State Duma has planned
The Chairman of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has ordered the preparation of an “initiative” according to which the condition for receiving Russian citizenship will be registration for military service. This will occur simultaneously with receiving a passport. Also, deputies, on the Kremlin’s go-ahead, have proposed increasing the term of service in the Russian army to two years (today it is one year) for persons with acquired citizenship and raising their draft age .
The purpose of the amendments, as the Duma cynically states in its statement, will be “to strengthen control over the performance of military service” by people with acquired citizenship. The amendments are planned to be considered before the end of the session, that is, before August 5, but no one doubts that they will be adopted.
“Russia is suffering heavy losses in the war in Ukraine, which must be compensated somehow. But the regime is afraid to declare a new wave of mobilization, which is why it is taking such measures,” says OBOZ.UA’s source in Ukrainian intelligence.
After Putin unleashed a full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities are faced with a catastrophic shortage of troops at the front – the occupiers’ losses are growing every day. In order to somehow solve the problem, the Russian authorities have already raised the draft age from 27 to 30 years, leaving the lower limit unchanged – 18 years. And if they decide to increase the term of service for “new citizens” to two years, then this measure will be extended to all Russians without exception.
Raids on Migrants
First of all, the adoption of the amendments will reduce the number of people coming to Russia “for a better life” and will reduce their interest in obtaining Russian citizenship. First of all, these are labor migrants from Central Asian countries. The main recipients of Russian citizenship in the last few years have been people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, who have occupied the niche of low-paid work, which is of no interest to Russians.
In late March 2024, after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, mass raids on migrants began – they have already taken place in 80% of Russian regions. Security forces beat people, forcing them to sign contracts – even those who were not citizens of the Russian Federation. Also, some migrants from Asia and their families were promised citizenship in exchange for agreeing to go to war in Ukraine.
Russians were not at all bothered by such lawlessness, on the contrary – they greeted the news of yet another lawlessness by the security forces with jeers. The main argument: let the newcomers go fight, the main thing is not us.
What will happen to the “new Russians” from Ukraine
A separate category of those who will fully feel the changes in Russian legislation are collaborators and residents of the occupied territories of Ukraine who were forcibly (or forcedly) issued a Russian passport.
Some of them, ideological supporters of the Putin regime, moved to the territory of the Russian Federation and there, using a simplified procedure, received passports of the aggressor country. Now, at any moment, they could be forced to “pay their debt” to their new homeland.
However, it is not only traitors who are under threat, but also those Ukrainians who were forced to obtain Russian citizenship – for example, residents of the occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. Previously, many of them had their Ukrainian passports torn up by the occupiers at checkpoints, thus forcing them to “become Russians.”
“During the occupation, many also lost their documents during arrivals, fires, emergency evacuations – and without a passport, you are nobody. There is no way to get out of this ghetto without it, it is dangerous even to go outside. Well, it is also practically impossible to leave with a Ukrainian passport, and you also have to go through filtration… So people apply for Russian passports, because there is no other way out,” a resident of occupied Melitopol told OBOZ.UA.
Now the hostages of the Russian occupiers are facing the prospect of fighting against their own people, against Ukraine. Moreover, the occupation forces say that this may not only threaten men. For example, in Melitopol the occupiers have already begun collecting data on female doctors.
Anyone who willingly takes on the cockroach citizenship deserves to be turned into dog food.
I generally agree but weren’t Ukrainians so didn’t want any part of Moskali were required to get a Moskali passport. I could be wrong but it’s something I remember reading.
That’s why is said willingly. I do feel sorry for those who didn’t and are being sent to their deaths against their own countrymen. But, they still have the options to surrender, desert, or to kill their commanders.
Agreed except for the last line that kills deserters tough situation