Kathmandu: Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister Kaji Shrestha has asked Russia to share a list of Nepalese citizens serving the Russian Army in the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war but stressed that complications remained in bringing them back from the war zone, according to media reports. “We have repeatedly instructed our mission in Moscow to take up the issue of sending back the …
They were lured by the promise of $3,000 paycheques and Russian citizenship. Kathmandu, Nepal – On a bitterly cold morning in early January, somewhere near Tokmak city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Bimal Bhandari* began a risky journey to desert the Russian army he had been serving with. “My family’s economic condition is miserable so I thought this would be a …