.President Vladimir Putin on Thursday provided Russian citizenship to 22 immigrants consisting of a Serbian national who said he encountered prosecution in his indigenous nation for fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine.Aleksandar Jokic documented a video recording appeal to Putin this spring season to inquire the Russian president to aid him prevent offering 25 years in Serbian penitentiary on mercenarism charges through offering him a Russian key.Jokic's scenario cued Russian legislators to occupy regulation banning the extradition of immigrants subject to criminal prosecution in their countries for joining what the Kremlin calls its own "special army operation" in Ukraine.Putin in January simplified the citizenship method for immigrants that join the Russian military.However Jokic pointed out in his video recording appeal that he had been refuted Russian citizenship for 3 years due to the fact that the device he fought for was located in the Russian-occupied Donetsk area of far eastern Ukraine.French media has disclosed that Jokic's device OBTF Cascade might have been actually started by a former Russian lawmaker and member of the ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia people.Jokic claimed he experienced deportation to Serbia after his device was actually assumed to be disbanded in April.Putin's decree published Thursday on an official internet site of Russian legislative actions says that Jokic was born in Serbia on Jan. 26, 2003.Serbia has put down the Russian infiltration of Ukraine at the United Nations yet has actually constantly declined to sanction Moscow, along with whom it possesses friendly relationships.Belgrade has actually notified Serbs that joining Russia's pressures against Kyiv will lead to lawful effects. It has additionally asked Moscow to end its tries to employ Serbs to fight in Ukraine as part of the well known Wagner mercenary team.