Getäuscht und eingesetzt: Russland rekrutiert Inder als Kanonenfutter an der ukrainischen Front

In her searing report for *France 24*, Sonya Ciesnik exposes how Russia has ensnared young Indian men in a cruel web of deception — luring them with promises of stable jobs only to cast them as expendable cannon fodder in Russia’s infernal war in Ukraine. Families across India are now pleading for the return of sons duped into signing contracts they could not read, then shipped to the front lines with barely a weapon’s training. As Russia’s manpower dwindles, its recruitment machine has turned predatory, exploiting India’s jobless youth through middlemen stretching from Hisar to Dubai. Ciesnik recounts the tragic story of Sonu Kumar, whose burnt remains came home wrapped in the flag of a foreign army he never meant to serve, a symbol of Moscow’s cynical calculus that treats desperate migrants as disposable flesh for its war machine.