India, Sept. 1 -- "Russian army officials first shot him in the hand, then in the leg. When he began crying out in pain, they killed him with a bullet to the head. He was not Russian but a foreigner trying to flee the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war. I was an eyewitness to this killing, as it happened in my apartment where I was staying. I had been asked to hold a torch for light since there was no electricity in the war zone. After this incident, I was so terrified that I could not sleep for many nights, and I never argued with Russian army officials when they were drunk," said Siraj [name changed], from a city in Uttar Pradesh, who returned to India after being duped into fighting for Russian forces in the war with Ukraine.

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