[5] In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Alsynov voiced strong criticism against the mobilization in Russia, emphasizing potential detriments to the Bashkir people.
Specifically, in December 2022, Alsynov took to Russian social network VKontakte, characterizing the Kremlin's "partial" military mobilization as a "genocide of the Bashkir peoples".
[7] Alsynov's viewpoint resonated with concerns that Russia might be deploying a disproportionate number of men from indigenous ethnic groups, including Bashkirs, to fight in the war against Ukraine.
In a complaint personally lodged by Radiy Khabirov, the head of Bashkortostan, authorities alleged that during the protest, Alsynov made disparaging remarks about migrant workers from the Caucasus and Central Asia, accusing him of "violating" their "human dignity" by referring to them as "black people".
With an estimated 3,000 participants demonstrating against Alsynov's sentence, these protests marked one of the largest public gatherings in Russia since the onset of its invasion of Ukraine.