13 UP Youth Tricked Into Fighting Ukraine War Under Pretense Of Security Jobs, Several Missing
The UP men, who travelled thousands of kilometres away from home in hopes of a good life for themselves and their families, were promised Rs 2 lakh per month in Russia.
Nearly a dozen young men from Azamgarh and Mau districts of Uttar Pradesh, who were taken to Russia to work as security guards, were forcibly sent to the battlefield instead.
Three of the 13 men who were taken to fight in Russia have died on the battlefield, while two others returned home after sustaining injuries. The whereabouts of the remaining eight are still unknown.
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The Indian embassy in Moscow has designated the eight as ‘missing’, reported Times Of India, citing the family members of the victims.
Acting on the reports that a group of Indian youths had been lured by promises of security guard jobs but were taken to fight in the war, India reiterated its demand for Russia to repatriate its nationals on January 14.
The victims from Uttar Pradesh, who travelled thousands of kilometres away from home in hopes of a good life for themselves and their families, were promised Rs 2 lakh per month in Russia.
‘I Miss Him A Lot’
Anita Devi, wife of Yogendra Yadav, whose whereabouts are not known yet, said, “I miss him a lot. This was his third foreign trip. Earlier, he had worked for several years in the Middle Eastern countries. This Russian job offer was considerably better and lucrative, as he was supposed to be a simple watchman that would have fetched him Rs 2 lakh every month."
“But within a couple of days after landing in Russia, he informed us that he had been deceived by the agents and trapped in a battle zone. He along with others were asked to mandatorily take part in weapons training and then were sent on the frontline to fight a war which had nothing to do with my husband," Devi was quoted as saying by TOI.
Yogendra Yadav along with 12 other men, including Azaruddin Khan, Humeshwar Prasad, Vinod Yadav, Sunil Yadav, Kanhaiya Yadav, Arvind Kumar, Dhirendra Kumar, Deepak, Ramachandra, Shyam Sundar, Rakesh Yadav and Brajesh Kumar Yadav travelled to Russia between January and February last year.
Of them, Kanhaiya Yadav, Sunil Yadav and Shyam Sunder died while fighting for Russua and their bodies were sent back to their native places between September and December of 2024.
Rakesh Yadav and Brajesh Yadav came back home with shrapnel injuries in September last year. The whereabouts of the other eight are not known yet.
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