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RUDRAPUR: A antheral from Udham Singh Nagar who had precocious travelled to Russia for higher studies was allegedly coerced into joining the Russian service and sent to the warfare beforehand successful Ukraine, his household said, adding they person had nary interaction with him since aboriginal Sept and are present hopeless for help.
The household of Rakesh Kumar, 30, has written to the ministry of outer affairs (MEA), sought enactment from the Indian embassy successful Moscow, and approached section officials successful a bid to bring him backmost home.Rakesh, a nonmigratory of Kushmoth colony successful Shaktifarm nether Sitarganj tehsil, had near for Russia connected Aug 7 aft securing admittance to St Petersburg University connected a survey visa. However, wrong a fewer days, helium began hinting astatine being successful a troubling situation, suggesting things were not going arsenic planned.His elder brother, Deepu Maurya, said the past clip they had a nonstop speech was connected Aug 30, erstwhile Rakesh informed them that helium had been forcibly drafted into the Russian service and would soon beryllium deployed to the warfare portion successful Ukraine. After that call, his telephone went unreachable. The household aboriginal received a photograph of Rakesh successful a Russian subject uniform, which lone heightened their fears and confirmed their worst suspicions.
A fewer days later, Rakesh called again, this clip from an unfamiliar Russian number. In a abbreviated and distressed conversation, helium told them that his passport and idiosyncratic documents had been seized, his authoritative emails had been deleted, and that helium had undergone subject grooming successful the Donbas portion earlier being sent to the battlefield. That was the past they heard from him."We bash not adjacent cognize if helium is alive. We conscionable privation the govt to bring him backmost location safely," said Deepu.
The household wrote to MEA connected Sept 5 and has besides reached retired to elected representatives and the section administration.This is not the archetypal specified lawsuit to aboveground successful caller months. At slightest 20 Indian nationals - mostly from Punjab and Haryana - person claimed they were tricked into going to Russia connected the pretext of acquisition oregon employment, lone to beryllium coerced into joining Russian military.
