The percentage of the indigenous peoples of russia among dead interventionists significantly exceeds the percentage of these peoples in the population structure of the russian federation.

Russia has officially recognized the death in the war of at least 580 natives of the Volga region, 150 soldiers from Buryatia, the Transbaikal region and Irkutsk region, and at least 140 military personnel from Dagestan. Unofficial figures of the dead are much higher.

According to official data 44% of the deceased during the war are from Buryatia, and just 2.8% from russia, although Buryats make up 29.5% of the republic population and only 0.3% of the russian population.

16% of Kazakhs (150,000) live in the Astrakhan region, and 80% of the residents of this region who died in the war in Ukraine were Kazakhs.

North Ossetia, Buryatia, Tyva, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chukotka and Volga region have the most deaths per thousand population.

 Why is the kremlin so purposefully sending young people of different nationalities to Ukraine?

The russian command deliberately sends soldiers of non-russian appearance to the front line to emphasize the formal justification of the attack on Ukraine under the slogan “the multinational people of the russian federation are fighting fascism.”

 The kremlin “throws into hell” natives from the most remote parts of the country in order to omit anti-war protests in large russian-speaking cities.

The participation of these representatives in the war against Ukraine is another reminder of their “second-class status” in modern russia.

  What motivates representatives of indigenous peoples to join the army en masse to die?

 The kremlin’s national policy is aimed at transforming national republics and places of compact residence of russia’s indigenous peoples into socially backward regions, where local youth escape poverty by signing a contract with the armed forces.

 There is a traditionally high level of unemployment among residents of national minorities, and a lack of employment prospects in large cities.

Discrimination based on nationality, numerous manifestations of xenophobia are the main motives for young people of non-Slavic appearance to sign military contracts.

 The kremlin authorities are deliberately exterminating their small ethnic groups in Ukraine, hoping that this will solve the “great historical task” of creating an “All- russian nation.”

 Representatives of the Chechen, Kalmyk, Buryat, Bashkir, and Tatar national movements publicly oppose the war and urge their compatriots not to participate in hostilities against Ukraine.

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