The bodies of two Indians who were killed on the Russia-Ukraine border after they were forced to fight alongside the Russian Army were brought to Delhi on March 16 and flown to their homes in Surat and Hyderabad.
The deceased, Hemil Ashvinbhai Mangukiya (23), a resident of Surat in Gujarat, and Mohammad Asfan (31) from Hyderabad, Telangana were hired as helpers for the Russian Army but were forced to participate in the ongoing war, their families said. The papers provided by Russian authorities said that Asfan died on January 27 in the Donetsk region in an “explosion”.
Asfan’s brother Mohammad Imran said the body reached the Delhi airport in the early hours on Saturday and they were not provided any opportunity to identify it earlier.
