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2026-11-03 · Ukrinform

Russia sending migrants, asylum seekers, convicts to fight in Ukraine – UN expert

According to her, Russia's war is imperialist in nature, and the most vulnerable groups of the population are being drawn into it using the most brutal methods. In particular, mobilization has hit small indigenous communities especially hard. Katzarova noted that in Moscow and St. Petersburg, mobilization was carried out mainly online and by relatively less coercive methods. In remote villages in Siberia, however, since the start of the full-scale war, Interior Ministry officials have arrived in buses, gone from house to house, forcibly taken men away and sent them to fight thousands of kilometers from home. "Some indigenous peoples live in northern Siberia, and an entire nation can consist of just four villages," the rapporteur said.

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