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A Hyderabadi youth has been duped and coerced to join the Russian army to fight the war against Ukraine. Reportedly, 37-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, a resident of Khairatabad, travelled to Russia for a construction job, procuring visa and other essential documents through a dubious agent based in Mumbai. After the intervention of AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, the Indian Embassy in Moscow is now trying to get him released and repatriated.
Ahmed was promised of a lucrative job in a construction company in Russia and he left India on April 25. His wife Afsha Begum said that the employment soon turned into a fake promise. On landing in Russia, Ahmed had a tough time for nearly a month as he had no job. Afterwards, he and 30 others were allegedly taken to a remote military camp, given training in wielding weapons and forced to join the war against Ukraine.
In a letter to External Affairs minister S Jaishankar, Afsha wrote that around 26 of those trained were taken to the border area to fight the Ukranian army. “My husband jumped from the Army vehicle to escape and his leg got fractured, yet he is being threatened to fight or get killed.” Ahmed, in a video message from the warfront, described his ordeal. He and three other Indians had refused to fight but were threatened at gunpoint. He also claimed that 17 of the 25 taken to the border along with him had died, including one Indian.
“At this place where I am is the border and the war is going on. We refused to go into the warzone, but they pointed weapons at us. I have a plaster on my leg and am not able to walk. Don’t leave the agent, he trapped and brought me here,” he said, in an emotional tone. His family took up the issue to Asaduddin Owaisi who alerted the Ministry of External Affairs and Indian Embassy in Moscow. Responding to Owaisi’s representation, Counsellor at the Embassy of India Tadu Mamu in Moscow, said that the Embassy has shared Ahmed’s details with Russian authorities and requested for necessary action.
The incident reminds one of Mohammed Asfan, another youth from Hyderabad, who was killed after being forced to join the Russian war. His body was repatriated in March 2024 after the MEA’s intervention. Asfan used to work in a ready-made garment store when a Dubai-based agent promised him a helper’s job with a salary of Rs 30,000 per month, which would later be raised to Rs 1.5 lakh. He, along with two others, reached Moscow via Sharjah in November 2023 and never returned.
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