Dhaka, June 8 -- The government has suspended three recruiting agencies' licences over claims that Bangladeshi workers sent to Russia for jobs were later drawn into the Ukraine conflict.

On Monday, Expatriates' Welfare State Minister Nurul Islam said legal action against the agencies is also under way.

Responding to a supplementary question from Mymensingh-6 lawmaker Kamrul Hasan in parliament, he said: "Thirty workers were taken to Russia on the promise of jobs and later involved in the conflict. Their families informed us. We immediately suspended the licences of three recruiting agencies. Legal proceedings against them are ongoing."

However, he noted that many Bangladeshis linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict did not travel directl...