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It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Russia is forcing thousands of African migrants and students to join in their war efforts against Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing assessments from European officials.
Some African workers have even been threatened with deportation if they do not agree to fight in Ukraine, one European official told Bloomberg.
In October, Russia's Deputy Justice Minister Vsevolod Vukolov said the country's prison population had plunged to a historic low of 266,000, per The Washington Post.
A local official told lawmakers in March that some prisons had to be shut down because of "a one-time large reduction in the number of convicts," per the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
But conscripting its migrant population could put further pressure on the Russian economy, which has been grappling with severe labor shortages.
Representatives for Russia's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
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