.President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave Russian citizenship to 22 foreigners including a Serbian nationwide that claimed he experienced prosecutor in his indigenous nation for fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine.Aleksandar Jokic documented a video allure to Putin this springtime to inquire the Russian head of state to aid him prevent providing 25 years in Serbian prison on mercenarism fees by giving him a Russian travel permit.Jokic's case motivated Russian lawmakers to use up legislation banning the extradition of immigrants based on prosecution in their nations for participating in what the Kremlin names its "exclusive army function" in Ukraine.Putin in January streamlined the citizenship method for immigrants who participate in the Russian military.Yet Jokic said in his online video allure that he had been actually rejected Russian citizenship for 3 years due to the fact that the system he fought for was based in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.French media has mentioned that Jokic's device OBTF Cascade might possess been actually started by a former Russian legislator and participant of the ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia group.Jokic said he experienced extradition to Serbia after his system was expected to be disbanded in April.Putin's mandate published Thursday on an official web site of Russian legal actions states that Jokic was actually born in Serbia on Jan. 26, 2003.Serbia has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations yet has actually constantly rejected to sanction Moscow, along with whom it possesses friendly relations.Belgrade has alerted Serbs that joining Russia's pressures versus Kyiv would result in legal effects. It possesses also inquired Moscow to finish its own tries to recruit Serbs to fight in Ukraine as component of the notorious Wagner mercenary group.