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Dozens of families in Central Asia in the war in Ukraine Russia the corpses of his relatives, who were involved in the ranks of his forces, are arriving. In the last month alone, at least four families in Kyrgyzstan have had their relatives fight in Ukraine perished news has arrived. They are in the army Russia were recruited from their prisons by Wagner’s mercenary group.
Farangiz Najibullah, a correspondent of RFE/RL, writes that among those who received news of his death was a 30-year-old man from southern Osh province who was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of rape and theft. Erlan Ermekov was also He signed a six-month contract with Wagner in November. Instead, money Russia he would get citizenship, his criminal history would be cleared.
His mother Gulnara Zakirova says that Ermekov saw it as a chance to start life over. Mother confirms that they received money from Russia – 1300 in the first month dollarsthe following months 2 thousand 400 dollars they bought But this does not last long, Ermekov is killed in battle on February 6.
Now Mother Russia is campaigning for all Kyrgyz people who are living in prison to be brought to the country and serve their sentences in their own country.
“I lost my only son, I don’t want other mothers to go through what I went through.” – he said.
of Kyrgyzstan judge authorities are currently 1077 citizens in Russia imprisonment confirmed that they have served their sentence, most of them were sentenced for drug charges.
Thousands of people from other countries of Central Asia in Russia imprisonment is punished. Because Russia is the main destination for migrant workers from the former Soviet republics.
It is said that the Wagner group, which is said to have committed atrocities in various war zones around the world, attracted up to 50 thousand fighters to Ukraine. 80 percent of them are those whose names are in Russian prisons.
The United States classified this group as a transnational criminal organization on January 29.
Since the end of June, Wagner has involved at least 35,000 prisoners in the war in Ukraine. This was said by the director of the human rights organization “Rus Sidyashchaya”, which specializes in the rights of prisoners Olga Romanova he says. He said the group mainly targets prisoners from Central Asia, often listing them against their will.
52-year-old from Tajikistan Fatulla Narzullayev He went to work in Russia in June. In early February, his body was sent to his native village near the capital Dushanbe. Narzullayev used to tell his relatives in phone calls from prison that he was being “forced to go to war”.
RFE/RL’s Tajik service has calculated that 14 Tajik prisoners have been killed in Ukraine in recent months.
Families of Central Asian convicts in Russia say their relatives faced physical and psychological abuse in order to go to war.
Central Asian governments have repeatedly warned their citizens that in other countries military not to participate in conflicts.
In recent days, a video circulating on the Internet shows dozens of wooden boxes in the hangar of the Tolmachevo airport in Novosibirsk. When you zoom in on the images, death certificates are read above them. Each paper has a name and surname.
In one of the documents, “Gerbold. Buryatia” is written.
39-year-old from Buryatia Gennady GerboldHis relatives told RFE/RL’s “Siberia.Realities” portal that two weeks ago, Wagner’s group informed them about Gerbold’s death. news and then his body was returned to Novosibirsk.
Employees of Tolmachevo airport denied that the video was shot there, calling it “fake information” he called.
However, local officials have recently confirmed that a significant number of ex-prisoners from the region have been killed in Ukraine.
President of Buryatia Russia, one of the poor regions of Siberia Vladimir Putinhas borne the brunt of the full-scale war against Ukraine. More people are reported to have died in the war in Buryatia than in other regions of Russia, such as the capital Moscow or St. Petersburg.
It is said to be filmed in Novosibirsk video and it was spread against the background of the news about the significant increase of Russian losses in Ukraine.
Heavy fighting has been going on in Bakhmut and the nearby towns of Soledar and Vuhledar for several weeks.
“Siberia.Realities” confirmed that some of the people whose names were mentioned in other documents in the said video were also killed in Ukraine.