The project members noted the efforts of the Turkmenistan authorities to counteract the recruitment from Russia, but the aggressor still manages to recruit Turkmen to replenish his assault units. Although the citizens of Turkmenistan among the mercenaries of the countries of Central Asia are the least, but since 2023, the annual pace of their recruitment only grow.
According to the project, Russia offers money and actively sells its citizenship and issues a passport of the Russian Federation to everyone who agrees to sign a contract for the service and go to the war in Ukraine.
“The commanders of Russian divisions are indifferent to the mass death of their soldiers, and they generally look at foreigners from Asian countries as one -time material. For foreign mercenaries, there are no places in the rear units, headquarters or at least on checkpoints. All of them fall into the assault infantry and are the first to go to” meat assaults, “I want to live.
The project recalled that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on foreigners in any way to avoid entering the ranks of the Russian occupation army, and in case of sending to the front – to contact the “I want to live” project. To do this, you should write in the project in the project in Telegram or call: +38 044 350 89 17 and 688 (from Ukrainian numbers).
Context
On attracting foreign mercenaries to the Russian occupation army in March 2022 Reported in the Pentagon.
The fact that Russia was recruiting foreigners to the army, in September 2023 Reported and British intelligence. In particular, they recruited citizens of Armenia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, as well as migrants from Central Asia. In intelligence, it was reported that among the Uzbek builders-migrants in Mariupol, Donetsk region, they confiscated upon the arrival of the passport and forced them to join the Russian army.
April 23, 2025 Russian edition “Important Stories” published a material that mentions At least 1.5 thousand mercenaries of the Russian army from at least 48 countries of the world. According to the data from April 2023 to the end of May 2024, a medical examination for signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation passed 71 citizen of Uzbekistan.
