Rolpa, March 11 -- A Nepali man serving in the Russian army was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday.

Tirkha Bahadur Budhathoki, 44, from ward 5 of Sunchhahari Rural Municipality in Rolpa, died in the attack. He had travelled to Russia via India in September 2023 to join the Russian army and had been serving for nearly 18 months.

The drone strike targeted a four-member Russian unit, including Budhathoki and another Nepali soldier. While Budhathoki and a Russian soldier died on the spot, the remaining two sustained injuries.

His father, 70-year-old Om Bahadur Budhathoki, said he had lost contact with his son since February 25. "He had gone out of contact several times before, but this time, the news of his death came instead,"...