Kremlin sends migrants to dig trenches in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russian authorities have been using foreigners who have obtained Russian citizenship to help fight the war in Ukraine, Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee, said Thursday.

Moscow “located” more than 30,000 foreign migrants who recently received Russian citizenship but did not register for the military in Russia, Bastrykin said during the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, according to the Interfax news agency.

“We have already caught more than 30,000 [migrants] who received citizenship and did not want to register for the military, put them on the register, and already sent about 10,000 to the zone of a special military operation,” Bastrykin said during a panel discussion on migration legislation in Russia.