One-Way Ticket: How Migrants from Kazakhstan and Central Asian Countries Are Lured...

2026-06-01

One-way ticket: how migrants from Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries are lured into someone else’s war

The stories of hundreds of Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, and Tajiks who ended up in the war in Ukraine are like carbon copies of one another. They went to Russia for work, only to find themselves in a meat assault. Some chased “easy money,” believing promises of payouts of

0,000, some were tricked into signing a contract at migration centers among stacks of other documents, and some were simply violently restrained, put through electric torture in a district police department, and told point-blank: “You’re already in the army.”

In the documentary by the project “Just Journalism,” there are candid accounts from POWs and the stories of the dead, including young Viktor Kotsubinsky from West Kazakhstan Region, who survived at the front for only one month after filming for Russian state TV.

Watch the full video to understand how this bloody system works and what to do if your loved ones in Russia have come under pressure from the authorities:

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