Ganesh, 35, told Sky News that Nepali soldiers were treated as cannon fodder and that "once we were sent to Ukraine, we didn't have enough food and were beaten by the Russians".
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    Ganesh then had to take out a loan and pay him one million Nepali Rupees (nearly £6,000) to travel from Moscow via Dubai on a tourist visa.

    But in January this year, the government banned its citizens from travelling to Russia or Ukraine for work and has asked Moscow to repatriate all Nepalis who were recruited.

    Superintendent Nawaraj Adhikari told Sky News the police are cracking down on agents - the men who help sort the documents required to cross into Russia and illegally fight its war.

    He eventually fled again on foot, sleeping in old buildings, and spending a week in the forest before finally surrendering to the Russian police in Donetsk.

    Kritu Bhandari, a Kathmandu-based politician and social campaigner, has become the leader of a group of family members of Nepali mercenaries who are calling for their return from Russia.

    Sky News asked the Russian Ministry of Defence and the embassy in Nepal to comment on Ganesh’s allegations, and to provide the number of Nepali mercenaries in its armed forces.

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