It was then Imran Mohammad, 41, saw the extent of what had happened to his 31-year-old brother while fighting for the Russian armed forces in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I saw holes on the back of his shoulder, his ribs right down till his lower back,” Imran told CNN.
“There were six to seven holes caused by a drone attack. It ripped through his body. There was internal damage. Two teeth were broken.”
And now this tight-knit family in Hyderabad, southern India was broken too. A husband, father and provider gone.
Imran’s business was also in ruins, rotted by neglect as he’d focused all his energies on finding out what happened to his brother on the battlefield of Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the Second World War.