Russia to ‘bring in 1m Indian workers’ as war triggers manpower crisis | World | News
Russia had to prepare for one million Indian workers to prevent the collapse of the labor force. In February 2022, since the beginning of the full -scale war in Ukraine, he received a call to the Russian army of many working age.
The army is under great pressure to find new soldiers to be sent to the front to replace the wounded or the wounded. Russia, more than three and a half years in the ruthless struggle continued to lose tremendous staff. According to some accounts, Vladimir Putin’s army lost more than a million loss, including the dead and wounded. Faced with heavy losses and retirement wave in Ukraine, Russia is difficult to find enough workers to continue to employ the war economy.
Russian companies will have to hire the equivalent of two million workers in the next five -fifth year to fill the newly created positions and empty positions left by retirees.
This forced the Kremlin to find foreign workers to fill the empty positions in Russian factories. Moscow quietly made a quiet agreement with the new Delhi to bring up to one million Indian workers to help alleviate manpower problems.
Andrey Besedin, RBC Media Outlet told, “As far as I know, one million experts from India will come to Russia, including the Sverdlovsk region until the end of the year.” The President of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry added: “Yekaterinburg is opening a new consulate general to deal with these issues.”
Besedin said that Indians will help to fill the distress of high -quality workers in the Sverdlovsk region.
The region in the Urals is home to the military-industry complex, including the Russian heavy industry and the world-renowned URALASS Factory and the T-90 series tank manufacturer Ural Wagon Zavod.
It is estimated that the Russian economy will need 10 million workers by 2030, which is a significant difficulty considering a decreasing birth rate and an increasing list of war losses.
According to a demography, this year’s birth rates in Russia fell to the lowest level in 200 years. Alexei Raksha claimed that the first quarter of 2025 has seen the lowest number of births since the beginning of the 1800s and pointed to the lowest monthly figure for more than 200 years.
Based on the pre-registration office data, it was estimated that 95,000 to 96,000 children were born in March and increased the total to 293,000-294,000 for the first quarter.
