For nearly two months, V Bhargavi ran from pillar to post, pleading with Telangana government officials to help bring home her husband, Avilala Sudarshan Goud, who was killed in a Russian drone missile strike in Ukraine on September 1.

This week, her efforts paid off, with the Telangana government stepping in to facilitate the repatriation of the 42-year-old’s mortal remains.

Officials said the coffin was being transported by road from Ukraine to Poland and would be flown to Hyderabad in the next couple of days. Goud’s body is expected to reach his native village of Hasanabad in Jagtial Urban mandal on October 31, said Mandha Bheem Reddy, vice-chairman of the Telangana government’s NRI Advisory Committee.

Family pressures had driven Sudarshan, who had worked in the construction sector in Jagtial district all his life, to seek work in Ukraine, his cousin A Naveen told The Indian Express.

“He was finding it difficult to pay for the education of his two daughters.…