There are fifty more Indian nationals still in battlefields in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and efforts are under way to rescue them and get them released too, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs added.
Forty five Indians who were illegally made to join the Russian army and fight for them on the battle fronts against Ukraine have been rescued from the war zone and discharged from the Russian military, the Ministry of External Affairs said today.
There are fifty more Indian nationals still on battlefields in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and efforts are underway to rescue them and get them released too, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs added.
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Moscow, Russian President Vladimir had assured Mr Modi that Russia will discharge any and all Indians who had been misled and falsely inducted in the Russian Army and subsequently forced to go the battlefields in Ukraine.
HOW INDIANS WERE MISLED INTO JOINING RUSSIAN ARMY
A human trafficking network extending from New Delhi to Tamil Nadu used social media platforms and local agents to lure people to Russia by offering them lucrative jobs or admission to what Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) called “dubious private universities”.
Once they reached Russia, however, the victims’ passports were taken and they were trained in combat roles before being deployed at the front.