Tajik tells about life in Ukrainians Frontlines beside Russian troops

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In 2024, Mohammed * flew in St Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, on his first journey overseas.

With its perfect grid, putting Imperial palaces and “white nights”, when the approaching of the Arctic Circle did the darkness disappeared near the end of summer, St Petersburg was very cried at home.

Mohammed arrived from Dushanbe, the day-built and upper case of Teshstan, the poorest of the Ex-Soviet Central Asia.

He saw the journey as a means to strengthen income and submit a home paid, like millions of Central Asian Economists to Russia each year or live there full-time.

He entered Russia Visa-free, paid 6,000 rubles ($ 74) per month with a renewable operation, and shared a tied apartment with six while working at the right station.

But months after arriving, how life was carefully dropped.

He told Al Jazeera that, who forgot to pay a work permit, and he was taken by police, and denied food. Wholpen, Russian military authorities forced him to register, he said.

He said he had no choice without serving.

He went to Ukraine and fought with Russian soldiers and the foreign war on the Moscow side.

Earlier this year, Ukrainian troops took him. He is now a prisoner of war (pow).

The Ukrainian soldiers give Al Jazeera Are to reach Mohammed, one of many Asian prisoners. Al Jazeera didn’t testify to Mohammed speaking under Douress, however, there was a priority in prison in the nearest row.

Al Jazeera hides Mohammed’s ownership for security reasons.

According to international laws, prisoners of war should be treated by man.

But several fronts discussed in Ukraine and were later swimming in prison because “spread false stories”. Both Kyiv and Moscow also sell allegations of misconduct, abuse and performance ofpows. Some of the claims have been confirmed by the bad videos sent online or telegraph videos.

Mohammed cried to Russia at the time of the interview. In addition to the suspects that police breeze, he said that he saw discrimination of anti-muslims at military training centers.

Russia and Ukraine have changed thousands of military prisoners from the beginning of 2022. No official data at the amount of each cattle carrying. Mohammed said he hoped to be transmitted to Russia and was allowed to fight on Ukraine’s side instead.

It is a claim that we feel is common in the state of Russia – Ukraine. In July, Russian legal mother Vodolatsky said many Ukrainian centers declined to return and wanted to fight in Moscow. The activist said that at the time “was unexpected, or almost impossible, the prisoners could confess this kind of material”.

Mohammed said that back in Russia, he saw that he had signed a one-year bonus contract with a signing bonus with 1.6 million rubles) – they are said to be forced to do so.

The officers promise to serve as “guards” away from the main line and can receive Russia passport within six months.

“They deceived me,” he said.

He then spent churches that trained west of Russia. Training was the end, he said. His AK-47 gun was older and survived and continued to clean.

“My weapon didn’t work, I swear. Seriously,” he said.

The Kremlin Policy for Employment ‘

Russia is suspected for a long time To cover the Asian centrals, the suspected to be heavy.

Like Mohammed, some survivors tell their stories that they are being promised by the bad wage, “safe” jobs away from the front row, along with Russian citizens.

“After all the Kremlin Policy for renting for any required methods and avoiding the compulsory of Russian composition,” Aloisher Ilkhamov, the head of the Central Asian Tank, a tank in central London, Al Jazeera.

At training centers, where many hate lies in the inexpensive cemetery, there were some Muslims from Russia – including the nations of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.

Some volunteer, but most of the time when they were to enter, Moammed said.

He revealed that Muslims are not allowed to pray and under daily and economic slers from the drill managers, who force them to break their beards and pure toilets in and out of the toilet.

The number of Russians were low and restricted to a case given by dedication to serve by receiving the Presidency.

The Moscow denies that it has good or religiously discreet wisdom.

In May 2023, Russian prosecutor Aleksander Basterry said, and Russians in the front row, the residents attacked us … if they were not happier. “

A year later, he said that forced for employment “is a good thing that led to the situation where the immigrants began a little leaving Russia”.

After training, Mohammed was rushed into a home-old east of the Ukraine. He dedicated a revolutionary gun, magazines, and bombs.

You have joined with someone else’s external watch, who told him to donate to Russian passport.

‘A plan of more groups of storms’

Biakers appeared to be part of a new Stratagem of Moscow to send services to enter the Ukraine and axower positions and ammunition before arguing with Ukrainian armies.

“This is a tropical trick; it is used since the spring, in certain places since the end of last year,” Nikolay Motrakhin Bremen University, authorized by Al Jazeera.

“Reduce loss, especially if there are leaves” hide the forces “and to increase the way to destroy, around the tenold”.

Mohammed and other Servicemen had their own calls, documents, and debit cards removed by their officials.

They receive cheap smartphones for a single app – the alpine demand, the topographic system that allows users to move using coded links without web access and GPS.

They did not know the names of the towns and farms provided for the progress of their instructional officer, which they spread far away and they never went out.

Every day, they traveled for hours in small groups. One of the Servicemen managed the bag in the Jamming bag with Ukrainian drones that were not installed.

He said he saw several killed Russian soldiers: “Some had heads, some arms.”

Strengthened in spite of famine and koma – the resources brought by the drone – the cubs built in a small bottle of water and two or three chocolate.

When Mohammed saw an incrediated soldier, arrested Russian, her police officer warns her by the radio to help her.

In Mohammed, that was a popular revelation – his life said nothing, and they may have been abandoned.

Among the greatest spell, Mohammed and his partner ordered to hide in the Ukrainian village left.

Without foods brought by the drone in the days, cleaning kitchens and unborn resources only find another pasta, who were chewed by the raw.

But Ukrainian drones are followed.

‘Mohammed revealed the urge to work for Ukraine’

Mohammed said during the army, did not turn his gun or throw one grenade. Ukrainians take those claims with salt.

“In my years since my full attack on Russia in Ukraine, no Russian prisoner who once agreed that he killed the Ukrainian, inhabitants.

Mohammed “was a Russian-trooper storm. He was taken captive while burning the Ukrainian positions in Donetsk,” said the officer.

Mohammed said the closet of Ukraine, where he heard rumors that Russian captives were tortured and embarrassed.

He has been treated better than he expected of, said.

“I swear, they give me whatever I want – whenever, at any time, my little brother, ‘” said my little brother,’ he said, my little brother, ‘”said. Young brother, ‘he said, my little brother,’ he said, a little brother.

He also called him for the first time: “My father cried a little, he said, ‘Which is important to be alive.'”

He fears that it is possible to be changed, such as Russia, according to literature rights and soldiers, with global problems for returning prisoners in their row.

“They will bring me back to the battle, 100 percent, until I die or lose a cubit or leg,” he said.

He cannot return to Tabshmitan, either, as he had to face for 12 years in prison by joining others forces.

Hocho Jit (I want to live), a Ukrainian government group of monitoring and helping the coasts, said in April had confirmed 931 Tajik names of 18 to 70 years of fighting at Russia. He said that in 196 they were dead, since their life-lines were 140 days, and explained that a real number could be “more very above”.

Mohammed believes his way of life to introduce the Ukraine army to find his family for Ukraine citizens and to find his family in Tabhistan.

“When the war is over – if the war is over – I will tell my dad in Psdistan: Come, sell a house, and buy a house here,” he said.

A police officer who oversee Mohammed said it was considered by his registration.

Many Russian locusts have been voted for Ukraine since 2022, and Many have joined Two units soldiers contain Russian nations.

“To see the general state of Ukraine Servicin to her, and compare the Russian attitude, Mohammed expressed the desire to work for Ukraine forces, not to Russia to get racial prejudice,” said the officer.