.President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted Russian citizenship to 22 foreigners featuring a Serbian national who mentioned he dealt with district attorney in his indigenous country for battling on Russia's side in Ukraine.Aleksandar Jokic recorded a video appeal to Putin this springtime to ask the Russian president to aid him prevent serving 25 years in Serbian jail on mercenarism fees by providing him a Russian key.Jokic's case caused Russian lawmakers to take up legislation banning the extradition of foreigners based on prosecution in their countries for taking part in what the Kremlin names its "special armed forces procedure" in Ukraine.Putin in January streamlined the citizenship procedure for foreigners who join the Russian military.However Jokic claimed in his video clip allure that he had been denied Russian citizenship for three years due to the fact that the unit he defended was located in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of far eastern Ukraine.French media has disclosed that Jokic's unit OBTF Cascade might have been actually founded by a previous Russian lawmaker as well as member of the judgment, pro-Kremlin United Russia people.Jokic said he experienced deportation to Serbia after his system was anticipated to be disbanded in April.Putin's mandate published Thursday on a main website of Russian legislative actions says that Jokic was actually born in Serbia on Jan. 26, 2003.Serbia has punished the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations however has actually consistently rejected to sanction Moscow, along with whom it has friendly associations.Belgrade has alerted Serbs that participating in Russia's pressures versus Kyiv would certainly result in lawful outcomes. It possesses also talked to Moscow to finish its tries to hire Serbs to eliminate in Ukraine as part of the notorious Wagner mercenary team.