The 23-year-old Uzbek was insidiously forced to participate in the war in Ukraine after coming to work in Russia.
Kurbonov talks about force and pressure, calling for aid and revealing the fact about the recruitment of migrants and war activities.
The parent of young Uzbek struggles for his return home, emphasizing his powerlessness towards Russian and Uzbek authorities.
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Akbar Kurbonov, a 23-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, recorded a video message to his household asking for its dissemination. As he claims, it was established in occupied territories of Ukraine. The video went to social media.
A man says was deceived and forced to fight side by side Russia. However, he never wanted to participate in armed action.
– Mr. President, people! They shoot those who effort to escape. erstwhile we tell them we don't want to go to war, they beat us. – Kurbonov says on the video. I'll tell you who and where they killed, I'll tell you everything. I know where they buried the Uzbeks' bodies. Their mediocre parents are waiting for the kids to come home. It would be a mistake if I kept quiet knowing everything. Please, help! There are many suffering like me. Many Uzbeks are with me, any have already been buried – adds.
Russia lures migrants to war. "Alien people call"
In an interview with the writer Ozodlik, the Uzbek branch of Radio Free Europe, Kurbonov said he was at military camp No. 41624. It is located in the Donetsk Oblast occupied by Russia.
The man comes from a Surchandarian vilay in the south Uzbekistan. In June 2024 he left for work abroad. He found a occupation at the KAMAZ car Factory The second largest city in Tatarstan, Republic of the Russian Federation.
As he told the journalists, August 8, 2025 received a telephone call with a driver's proposal 1 of the companies in Rostov over Don.
– Strangers call migrants. I don't know how they got the telephone numbers. They can't be trusted. They kept calling me and trying to convince me," explained Kurbonów.
Ukraine War – Russia. ‘Driver contract’ consent to the front
Ozodlik's editorials reviewed correspondence between Uzbekistan and the man who introduced himself as Sergei. This 1 introduced him to a certain Andrei Kolesnikov, after which both men took Uzbek to the military draft office in Rostov over Don. There, as the migrant says, signed a paper which, as he was told, was a "driver contract". In fact, however, it was an agreement to participate in the war in Ukraine.
– Andrei led me to a military registration and collection office. When I asked him why we were there, he said I needed a medical examination.. erstwhile we got there, 2 men approached me, Mikhail and Kiril. They led me inside. The contract they showed me said I'd service in the military for a year, and my duties were listed as a gunman and a grenade launcher. I told them that I would not sign that contract, as they said: “You must sign it. You have no parents here, this is not your country, no 1 can aid you here”. Then they beat me up and forced me to sign," Uzbek said.
The man went to the front. erstwhile asked by a writer if he received a wage for his participation in the war, Kurbonov replied: "They said they would transfer 400,000 rubles (about PLN 18,000) to a bank account opened in my name. They may have actually transferred them. But I don't request them. The crucial thing is to get out of here..
Uzbekistan. The Dramatic Call of the Mobilized Mother
While Kurbonov begs the Uzbek authorities for aid from Ukraine, his mother, Ruzigul Bobojewa, seeks her in Tashkent. She came to the capital of Uzbekistan and rented an flat to ask officials to intervene and bring her boy home. Bobojewa claims that she received only formal answers to her appeals.
– I'm on the telephone with my son. He says he doesn't get water, he can't sleep, and he eats leftovers from others. Dear abroad Minister, what are you doing? Why don't you aid me get my boy back? I've contacted all the applicable authorities in Uzbekistan, but they only give me the papers. I don't request papers, I request my baby! Give me back my child! – a female calls.
War in Ukraine. Russia recruits migrants from Central Asia
Uzbekistan, like another Central Asian countries – a region where Moscow has crucial influence – tries to stay neutral about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Almost immediately after the start of the war, it became clear that Russia, which carried out "meat attacks", would urgently request staff on the front line. Migrant workers from Central Asian countries became 1 of the recruitment targets. any were lured with promises of advanced salaries and Russian citizenship, others signed contracts under force or threats, and others went to conflict in exchange for release from Russian prisons or detentions.
Faced with many reports of citizen recruitment, the Uzbekistan authorities issued warnings that participation in armed conflicts abroad is simply a crime. However, Tashkent, like another regional capitals, did not categorically condemn politics Cream by sending economical migrants to war.
In the last 3 years dozens of citizens fighting in Ukraine were convicted in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, receiving comparatively short sentences, from 3 to 5 years. However, the number of Central Asian citizens fighting on the front is many times higher and is likely to scope tens of thousands.
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