The Russian Federation has recruited nearly 15,000 Nepalese to participate in the war against Ukraine - CNN

One of the recruited fighters stated that after two weeks of study he was sent to Bakhmut. Now he regrets his decision to join the Russian army as a foreign mercenary. The Russian Federation has recruited nearly 15,000 Nepalese to participate in the war against Ukraine. Many of them returned to the injured, and some have never returned. They were promised at least $ 2,000 a month and an accelerated process of obtaining a Russian passport, CNN reports.

According to journalists, one of the Nepalese volunteers 37-year-old Ramchandra Hadko recently returned to Nepal after injury at the front in Ukraine. He said he witnessed horrible scenes and regrets his decision to join the Kremlin's army as a foreign mercenary. "I went to the Russian army for the sake of pleasure. I had no opportunity to work in Nepal. But looking back, it was the wrong decision.

We didn't think that we would be sent to the front so quickly and how terrible the situation would be," he said Ramchandra Hadka. According to him, he arrived in Moscow in September 2023. After two weeks of study, he was sent to Bakhmut with a gun and a basic equipment. "There is no heel of land in Bakhmut, which was not injured in bombing. All trees, shrubs and greens . . . Everything disappeared. Most homes are destroyed. The situation is so terrible there," he remembers.

The hut was sent twice to Bakhmut and he spent one month a total of one month. He was a bullet wound in the thigh. After it was rescued and taken a few hundred meters from the front line, he was hit by Shrapnel from a cassette bomb. "My head is still hurting when I think of the terrible scenes I saw in the war zone," he said. Some militants claim that although they went to fight for money, they do not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "It is wrong to invade another country.

Everyone has the right to life. All countries must respect the sovereignty of another country. It is wrong that people of any country kill in such a disgusting way. Incorrect when tens of thousands of people die for the interests of a few," Hadka said. According to CNN sources, it is one of 15,000 Nepalese men who joined the Russian Federation Army.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation proposed a program for foreign fighters, which included a salary of at least $ 2,000 a month and an accelerated process of obtaining a Russian passport. CNN has sent Russian Foreign Ministry a request for the number of Nepalese, published in the Russian army, and how many of them were killed. However, the publication has not been received at this time.