Overview

• The Ukrainian Army’s 63rd Mechanised Brigade released a video identifying the prisoner as Majoti Sahil Mohamed Hussein, 22, from Morbi, Gujarat.
• In the video, he says he was sentenced to seven years in a Russian prison on drug charges, signed a military contract to avoid jail, trained for 16 days, and then surrendered on his first mission.
• He states he received none of the promised pay and says he does not want to return to Russia.
• India’s Ministry of External Affairs and the embassy in Kyiv say they are verifying the report and have not received formal communication from Ukrainian authorities.
• Gujarat police confirmed he is a Morbi resident who went to Russia for studies and was jailed in a drug-related case, aligning with details in the Ukrainian release.