Russia is trying to trick immigrants into joining the russian army as cannon-fodder:

[DetlefK]

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/17/central-asians-in-russia-pressured-to-join-moscows-fight-in-ukraine-a76957

Central Asian nationals residing in Russia are being pressured to fight in Ukraine as Moscow's military incurs heavier-than-expected losses, evidence suggests and migrants' rights activists say.

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Valentina Chupik, a civil rights advocate famous for her work defending migrant’s rights in Russia, confirmed that more than a dozen Central Asians have sought her legal advice following pressure to sign up for contract service in the Russian army since Feb. 26.

In a conversation over the Telegram messaging app, she told The Moscow Times that she noticed two patterns by which migrants are being targeted.

Chupik said she received calls from 10 Tajikistan and Uzbekistan citizens who reside in Russia, saying they had received phone calls from people who claimed to represent immigration law firms and could expedite the process of receiving Russian citizenship if they signed up for contract service.

“This is a complete lie, the law does not allow this,” Chupik said. “I told these guys that [the callers] are scammers.”

Another tactic involves army tents in several Moscow metro stations, where Chupik says recruiters try to get commuters to enlist with the “Volunteer Army of the Donetsk People’s Republic.” They target migrants, Chupik said, promising that they can obtain Russian citizenship in just six months.

“I think the Russian government is using labor migrants as cannon fodder in Ukraine,” Chupik alleged in a recent interview. “These migrants are probably being signed up by the Defense Ministry and by private military companies.”

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A video of an Uzbek man allegedly driving a Russian military truck into Ukraine was widely shared via the Telegram messaging app. The man, who appeared to be in his 50s and was dressed in camouflage fatigues, said on camera that he was recruited because of his experience serving in Afghanistan and that he was given no choice but to sign up.

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In a TikTok video uploaded in early March by the account @kyrgyznation, a man warns of the possibility that Kyrgyz migrants could be called up to fight.

“If you have a Russian passport and get a summons [to the military enlistment station], try to come back to Kyrgyzstan,” he says.

Before @kyrgyznation turned off comments, the post was flooded with biting criticism of Kyrgyz men with Russian citizenship who would flee the draft.

“If your passport is from the Russian Federation, then you’ll give your life to the Russian Federation,” one commenter wrote.

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In late December 2021 — less than two months before the invasion of Ukraine — Putin proposed to amend the law again to shorten the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for contract soldiers from former Soviet countries.

[SheltieLover]

1. Who the hell would want russian citizenship?

[DetlefK]

2. If you are from a poorer country right next to Russia, you do.

[Igel]

3. All the reports about trying to recruit abroad,

and hints that maybe conscription isn't going exactly their way, are some of the best evidence as to how things aren't "proceeding exactly according to plan."

At some point many of the middle-of-the-road Russians will realize that all the "look how all these other peoples are supporting us!" rhetoric starts to equate with "we can't do this by ourselves ... And why is that, exactly?" But that may take weeks and a lot more such news.