Ukraine : Hundreds of foreign students holed up in basements to escape intense shelling in Kharkiv fear they will not get out alive.
One Indian student was killed by shelling in the city, Ukraine’s second-largest.
Thousands of others from India, Morocco, Egypt and Turkmenistan are trying to reach safety as Ukraine’s military battles to defend the city from a Russian invasion.
More than 300 students sheltering in the basement of their college fear they will be caught in the crossfire, for the fighting has quickly encircled their lodgings.
On Wednesday, India’s embassy in Ukraine asked all citizens to leave Kharkiv because the situation there was worsening.
It had earlier asked people not to venture out as fighting intensified.
“Every second, the situation is getting worse. We are losing hope,” said Soumalya Mukherjee, 20, from Kolkata, a second-year medical student at VN Karazin Kharkiv National University.
