Citizens of Kyrgyzstan are involved in the restoration of Mariupol, destroyed and occupied by the Russian army. They are offered from 80,000 to 100,000 rubles a month, Radio Azattyk found out.
Job advertisements at construction sites in Mariupol are periodically published on Telegram channels read by migrants from the CIS countries. Azattyk has analyzed several of them: job seekers are promised housing, food and overalls. Also, the announcements indicate that "there is no military action in the city," and the trenches are marked with special signs.
The journalists called the number listed in one of the ads and found out that builders were being recruited in Bishkek. They are informed that new houses are already being built where the fighting took place. Send workers to the occupied Mariupol through Kazakhstan. Some of the employers said that they no longer send anyone, allegedly because of police checks. However, according to Azattyk, this information was denied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.
Azattyk sources confirmed that dozens of Kyrgyz citizens work in Mariupol. One of them said that they were paid 5,000 rubles a day and 100,000 a month: “They clean up the cities occupied by Russia, work at construction sites.”
Earlier, Radio Ozodi wrote that workers from Tajikistan, hired by Russian companies to restore Mariupol, do not receive their salaries on time and in full. Instead of the promised 130-250 thousand rubles a month, they are paid only 60-70, which they could receive at home as well.