Durai Vaiko. File
| Picture Credit score: S. Siva Saravanan
MDMK MP Durai Vaiko on Friday (August 1, 2025) accused the Russian authorities of forcibly inducting Indians within the warfare in opposition to Ukraine, stating that their lives had been in peril.
“Already 12 Indians have misplaced their lives within the warfare, and 16 individuals have disappeared,” mentioned Mr. Durai Vaiko, who raised in Parliament the case of Kishor Saravanan, a youth from Cuddalore.
“Kishor Saravanan was compelled to endure navy coaching and was drugged. He might quickly be despatched to the warfare entrance to struggle the Ukrainian military. We might lose him within the preventing,” he mentioned.
He identified that in accordance with knowledge from the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, 126 Indians had been compelled to struggle within the warfare. “They went to the nation both to check — significantly medication — or in the hunt for jobs. They had been compelled to signal citizenship varieties and had been conscripted. That is official. Unofficially, many extra are serving within the Russian Military. They don’t seem to be simply from Tamil Nadu, however from many components of India,” he mentioned.
Mr. Durai Vaiko mentioned he had introduced the problem to the eye of Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and International Secretary Vikram Misri. “Mr. Misri instructed me the recordsdata have been despatched to the Residence Ministry,” he mentioned.
The mother and father of Mr. Saravanan, in the meantime, mentioned like many mother and father within the nation, they’d despatched their son to Russia to check medication. “We bought our land and despatched him to check… However now, he’s being compelled to struggle within the warfare,” they mentioned.
Printed – August 02, 2025 12:18 pm IST
