Moscow is sending thousands of migrants from Central Asia to the war with Ukraine in order not to recruit more politically active people into the army, according to the UK Ministry of Defense. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on June 27, 2024, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Oleksandr Bastrykin, stated that the Russian authorities have identified 30,000 migrants who have recently become Russian citizens and are not on the military register. Bastrykin also boasted that 10,000 of them have already been sent to Ukraine. He claimed that these migrants wou…