The authors of the investigation used a leak from the Moscow medical base (EMIAS), which covers the period from April 2023 to the end of May 2024.
It was in April 2023 in Moscow on Yablochkova Street, 5, building 1 began to operate a recruiting center, journalists write.
“More than 1.5 thousand foreign citizens who appear in the EMIAS database, the address of a single selection point for the contract is indicated as the address of residence. […] According to the leak, almost three hundred foreigners “live” in the apartment at number 302. The same number has a medical examination cabinet at the recruitment point, “the material says.
Investigators write that the procedure for selecting employees – from obtaining a coupon to entering data in EMIAS – takes about half an hour.
“We confirmed that dozens of foreigners with the address on Yablochkov participated in the war in Ukraine. Some of them died or were captured, but there are those who served the entire term of the contract and were able to expel from the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. However […] At least 13 cases were found when foreign volunteers left Russia the day or a few days after the visit to Yablochkov, ”the authors of the publication noted.
They calculated that Russia recruited the most mercenaries from among the Nepalians – at least 603 people from this country visited the recruitment point. When materials appeared in the media about the recruiting of the Nepalers to the war against Ukraine, the set of volunteers from Nepal “came to naught.”
The largest source of the mercenary of the post-Soviet countries became the mercenary for the Russian Federation, is emphasized in the material, their number is from eight from Georgia to 86 from Tajikistan.
Among the countries whose citizens went through the recruiting center in Moscow, “important stories” were also mentioned by Sri Lanka (64), China (51), India (43), Egypt (31).
In addition, citizens of Ghana (26), Cameroon (10), Senegal (eight), Cuba (eight), Serbia (eight), Algeria (seven), Iran (seven), Nigeria (four), Bulgaria (two), Bosnia and Herzegovina (two), Italy (two), USA (two), France (two), France (two), Bosnia (two), France (two), Bosnia (two), Bosnia (two), the USA (two), the USA (two). (two), Iraq (two), Turkey (two), Togo (two), Bangladesh (one), Mongolia (one), South Korea (one), Lebanon (one), Syria (one), Somalia (one).
Some mercenaries of Russia have already been convicted in countries whose citizens they are, in particular in Kyrgyzstan.
Context
On attracting foreign mercenaries to the Russian occupation army in March 2022 Reported in the Pentagon.
January 16, 2023 it became known that in Russia foreigners offer service in the army In exchange for citizenship of the Russian Federation.
The fact that Russia was recruiting foreigners to the army, in September 2023 Reported British intelligence. In particular, they recruited citizens of Armenia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, as well as migrants from Central Asia. In intelligence, it was reported that the Uzbek migrant builders in Mariupol Donetsk region confiscated passports upon arrival and forced them to join the ranks of the Russian army.
