US warns that dual citizens face Russian conscription

The US has warned its citizens to permission Russia instantly oregon hazard wrongful detention oregon conscription to combat successful Ukraine.

In a caller question warning, the State Department said Russia whitethorn garbage to admit US-Russian dual citizenship.

The informing added that US citizens had already "been interrogated without origin and threatened".

Russian officials person downplayed the updated question advisory.

It is unclear however galore US citizens are travelling oregon surviving successful Russia and a State Department spokesperson told the BBC that it does not way the question of US citizens abroad.

Following the Russian penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022, respective 1000 Americans reportedly fled the country.

Dual citizens besides look the imaginable of being conscripted arsenic portion of a wider Russia subject mobilisation to enactment operations successful Ukraine, it said.

"Russia whitethorn garbage to admit dual nationals' US citizenship, contradict their entree to US consular assistance, taxable them to mobilisation, forestall their departure from Russia, and/or conscript them," the informing reads.

A fig of US citizens - including erstwhile and existent authorities unit and backstage concern radical - person already been taken into custody, interrogated and harassed, according to the State Department.

"Russian information services whitethorn neglect to notify the US Embassy of the detention of a US national and unreasonably hold US consular assistance," the informing reads. "Russian information services are expanding the arbitrary enforcement of section laws to people overseas and planetary organisations they see 'undesirable'."

In a connection quoted by Russian quality bureau TASS, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the US had issued akin warnings "many times".

"This is not the archetypal clip we person heard this," helium said.

The past US informing for its citizens to permission came successful September, erstwhile Russian authorities announced a partial mobilisation of subject reservists.

Mr Peskov besides said that immoderate dual US-Russian citizens "are chiefly Russian citizens, careless of what citizenship they have".

Besides Russia, the State Department has "do not travel" advisories for 18 different countries including Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti, North Korea, Somalia, Ukraine and Yemen.