Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, said that more than 20,000 young Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Tajik men who had received Russian citizenship were sent to the front lines to fight against Ukraine.

Speaker of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin criticized the words of the head of the investigative committee Alexander Bastrykin. The fact is that he addressed those gathered at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum and asked when stricter laws will be developed to tighten the migration policy. In this address, he used the words "Gosudarstvennaya dura" (meaning fools in power) instead of "Gosduma". For information, Bastrykin added that more than 30,000 "immigrants" who received Russian citizenship were identified at the meeting, and 10,000 of them have already been sent to the front.