Kathmandu, March 14: Russian Ambassador Aleksei Novikov paid a courtesy call to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Narayankaji Shrestha on Tuesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singha Darbar. "The two parties discussed various issues related to Nepal and Russia, including deployment of Nepali citizens in the Russian army," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on the social network “X”. Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amrit Rai, said that during the meeting, there were positive discussions on stopping the recruitment of Nepalis in the Russian army, sending back those recruited Nepali nationals, bringing back the bodies of Nepalis killed in the war with Ukraine, and providing compensation to the dead and injured. People’s News Monitoring Service.