Around 20 Indians are stranded in various border towns along the front lines of Russia's war in Ukraine. India's foreign ministry confirmed Friday that some of the country's nationals had enlisted for "support jobs" in the Russian military.
At least three of them were “forced” to fight alongside the Russians, according to The Hindu newspaper. One of the enlisted Indians told the newspaper that his “repeated requests” for repatriation to the Indian embassy in Moscow had gone “unheeded”