Decree allowing foreign citizens who fought on behalf of Russia in Ukraine to obtain themselves and their families the Russian citizenship the Russian president signed today Vladimir Putin.
The decree states that persons who have signed contracts during the “special military operation”, as Moscow calls the war in Ukraine, they can apply to get Russian passport themselves, their spouses, children and parents, after submitting the relevant documents proving that they have signed a contract for at least one year.
Those who are eligible to obtain citizenship are: persons who had signed contracts with the Russian armed forces or other “military formations”a category that could apply to groups such as mercenary Wagner organization. According to APE – MEP, the measure seems to be aimed at creating incentives for foreigners with military experience to apply to join the Russian forces.
Moscow has not released figures on the number of foreigners fighting on its side in Ukraine. However, Reuters had recently reported on Cubans who signed contracts with the military for pay that exceeds more than 100 times the average wage in Cuba, and for three Africans recruited by Wagner, two of whom were killed in action.
A declassified US intelligence report estimated that the war in Ukraine has cost Russia 315,000 dead and wounded soldiers, or about 90 percent of its military strength when the war began, an intelligence source told Reuters last month.
THE Russia recruited 300,000 men in September 2022 during the first conscription he carried out after World War II. There have been strong rumors that the unpopular move will be repeated, perhaps after the next presidential election in March in which Putin is expected to secure another six-year term.
The Kremlin he has repeatedly stated that another draft is not needed because last year hundreds of thousands of men voluntarily signed contracts to become professional soldiers.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine have disclosed the extent of their losses in the 22-month-old war. The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he said last month that he proposed to enlist more 450,000-500,000 men and Ukraine's parliament today began revising the controversial text of a bill that would tighten and expand conscription regulations.
Source: News Beast
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