Rampur (UP): He went to Russia in search of employment, but had not bargained for the kind of job he would land. This 22-year-old from Mawasi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, got inducted into the Russian Army and was shot dead in the country’s ongoing war with Ukraine.
Mohd Shaved’s body reached Rampur on Saturday evening. His family said that he had gone abroad to work and not to join the Army. His joining the Russian Army was under coercive circumstances, they claimed, as reported by TOI.
Hhe family remains unaware of how he got into the Russian military, the dead youth’s brother Shahvez Ali said.
“After completion of the necessar
y formalities, the body was handed over to us,” he told the newspaper.
Somendra Meena, SP Rampur, said the police are monitoring the situation and that there is no tension in the village so far. “The burial has been completed and the situation in the village is normal. We are keeping a watch, but there is no tension at present,” he said.
Shaved had reportedly said that he would be working in steel furniture. His relatives said that things appeared normal at first, but the situation changed later and he landed up in the Russian Army.
The family does not know the exact details behind his joining the Army. They alleged he may have been forced into joining the Russian military, pointing to an audio clip in which he purportedly said that his life had been “ruined”, as reported by News18.
In the clip that surfaced on social media, Shaved had suggested he had gone abroad in search of a job and that he hadn’t expected the situation to turn out like this.
According to Shahvez, Shaved was shot during the conflict and died on the spot.