An Indian Student Who Refused To Return And Pick Up The Gun For Ukraine

Sainikhesh, the 21-year-old aerospace engineering student from Tamil Nadu who had joined Ukrainian paramilitary force to fight Russia, is willing to return to his hometown in Coimbatore soon, his father Ravichandran said.

Sainikhesh was studying final year aerospace engineering at the National Aerospace University at Kharkiv in Ukraine when, in February, he had joined the Georgian National Legion, a paramilitary unit comprising volunteers. Sainikhesh was twice rejected by the Indian Army because of his height. After the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, Sainikhesh refused to return back home and offered his services to Ukraine in fight against Russia, but now he wants to return back to his country as per the report of TOI.