Raid on a mosque in Moscow: security forces are forcing migrants to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

In order to raise combat power without general mobilization, the Russian authorities activate mobilization measures for migrants from Central Asia. On October 20, the Russian security forces raided the Mosque in the city of Kotelniki, Moscow region, detained several dozen Muslims, sent them on buses to military enlistment offices and forced to sign contracts for military service.

Thus, the Russian authorities solve mobilization problems by attracting migrants from Central Asia, analysts of the Institute for War Study (ISW) report. Among those who were in the mosque at the time of the raid, was the 25-year-old finalist of the shot "The Star" Mamut Usinov, who told details of the event. According to him, last Friday, a group of OMON, on the pretext of verification of documents, was driven to the bus of all men who were in the mosque and were taken to the city of Lyuberka.

"They brought to the military enlistment office of Lyuberka, where a medical commission was organized. I was recognized as suitable for service and transported to the contractors in Balashikha, on the Eastern highway. In the evening we were announced that everyone should sign a contract for a year or a prison" , - Usinov wrote on social networks. The next day, he learned that men would be sent to Ukraine, but later it turned out that it was a conscript service in the army.

The publication of ISW states that, according to insider data, the Russian military command sent an order "to identify naturalized citizens of the Russian Federation, who arrived from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to all departments of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee" to identify naturalized citizens And it demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia provide lists of names and addresses of such citizens.

It is on these lists that Russian security forces spend raids in dormitories, apartments, catering points, mosques and sent detainees directly to the military enlistment offices, analysts say. In this regard, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Basrykin, advocated the targeted mobilization of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus, claiming that migrants "were obliged to defend the country that accepted them" under the Constitution.