00:00Just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India,
00:11a 23-year-old from Morbi in Kutch district, Gujarat,
00:15has made a desperate public appeal to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
00:20from inside a Ukrainian detention center.
00:22Majyoti Sahil Mohamed Hussein, captured and held as a prisoner of war by Ukrainian forces,
00:28spoke to The Wire, an Indian news portal,
00:31in a detailed interview conducted on November 19, 2025,
00:36inside a Kyiv detention facility.
00:40Speaking in Kutchie-inflected Hindi, Hussein stated,
00:44I am in a big problem and I request my Prime Minister,
00:47Narendra Bhai Damodadas Modi, to help me.
00:52Ukrainian authorities permitted the interview on the condition
00:55that questions about his captivity in Ukraine would not be allowed,
01:00but permitted detailed questioning about his path into the Russian military
01:04and his surrender to Ukrainian forces.
01:08Hussein recounted in detail how he ended up on the battlefields of Ukraine
01:12fighting for a country he had no connection to.
01:15His case is emblematic of a broader pattern.
01:18Young Indian men, often economically vulnerable or seeking employment abroad,
01:23are being recruited, sometimes through deception, into Russia's war effort.
01:28These conscripted Indian fighters occupy a legally ambiguous category.
01:33Under international law, they are neither traditional prisoners of war nor mercenaries,
01:38but rather coerced conscripts or forced recruits.
01:42Ukrainian forces have captured dozens of such Indian origin soldiers,
01:47many of whom express similar stories of economic desperation,
01:51false job promises or forced conscription.
01:54The timing of Hussein's appeal is particularly significant.
01:59It comes just days before Putin's planned visit to India,
02:03when Modi and the Indian government are expected to reaffirm strategic ties with Moscow.
02:08India has adopted a cautious diplomatic stance on the Ukraine war,
02:13refusing to condemn Russia at the UN while maintaining trade and defence relationships.
02:18However, the emergence of Indian prisoners of war in Ukrainian detention centres
02:23has created a humanitarian and diplomatic dilemma for New Delhi.
02:27The Indian government has not publicly acknowledged the scale of Indian conscripts fighting for Russia,
02:33nor has it launched high-profile diplomatic efforts to secure their release.
02:37Hussein's direct appeal to Modi represents an implicit criticism of India's silence on this issue.
02:45As Modi prepares to meet Putin, questions loom.
02:49Will India address the plight of its citizens forced into Russia's war?
02:53Will Delhi use its strategic leverage with Moscow to secure the release of Indian POWs like Hussein?
03:00For now, the young Gujarati remains in Ukrainian custody, waiting for an answer from his Prime Minister.
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