New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) principal secretary and Trichy MP Durai Vaiko has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking urgent intervention for the safe repatriation of Indian nationals who he said have been forcibly conscripted into the Russian military and are in "extreme distress" in the war zone.

Vaiko highlighted the case of Kishore Saravanan, a medical student from Tamil Nadu, whose parents received a communication on August 16 stating that he was being taken towards active conflict zones in Bakhmut and Kostyantynivka. "His family is in unbearable agony as each passing day increases their fear of losing their son," Vaiko said in the letter.

He also pointed to the case of Om Chandrakant...