US EditionIndian Student Jailed in Russia Joins Army, Surrenders
Sahil Mohammad Hussain claims false drug charges led to forced Russian army enlistment; over 200 Indians recruited since 2022 with 26 deaths, India seeks their release.
- On Sunday , Sahil Mohammad Hussain, a 23-year-old student from Morbi, Gujarat, appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for help in videos circulated by Ukrainian authorities.
- Majothi travelled to St Petersburg on January 10, 2024, on a student visa to study at ITMO University and says Russian police implicated him in a narcotics case, sentencing him to seven years and offering military service to avoid jail.
- After around 15 days of training, Sahil says recruiters promised payments up to 1.5 million and claimed at least 700 people were jailed then pushed to join, and he surrendered to Ukrainian troops.
- His mother has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking his safe return, while Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on December 5 India is actively pursuing releases and PM Narendra Modi raised the recruitment issue with President Vladimir Putin.
- Officials have repeatedly warned citizens that of 202 Indian citizens recruited into the Russian military, 26 were killed, seven are missing, 119 discharged, and efforts continue for 50.
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Gujarat man fighting for Russia captured in Ukraine, sends SOS video: What Geneva Conventions say about POW treatment?
The Gujarat man said he was sentenced to seven years in jail in Russia in a narcotics case, and misled by Russian police into signing a war contract in prison, calling it ‘the biggest mistake in my life’.
Gujarat man in ‘Ukraine captivity’ appeals to PM in video: ‘Please help’
The man, Sahil Mohamed Hussein Majothi, a resident of Morbi’s Kalika Plot area, grabbed headlines when a video clip was released by the Ukrainian authorities earlier in October in which he is seen surrendering to the Ukrainian authorities.
From Gujarat to prisoner of war in Ukraine: How Indian was forced to join Russian army
Twenty-three-year-old Sahil Mohammad Hussain from Gujarat’s Morbi, who has been taken into Ukrainian captivity, has released a new video in which he appeals for help to the Indian government and warns young people coming to Russia to be ‘careful’. The message comes after he was forced to join the Russian army to escape a drug charge and subsequently sent to the frontlines of the war
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