Kharkiv: Trapped Indian students in underground bunkers without enough food, plead for evacuation from war-torn city

In the war-torn Kharkiv city in northeast Ukraine, several anxious students have taken refuge in a dusty, poorly-lit bunker. Lying on ragged mattresses they arranged from their hostels, students scroll through their dying phones trying to get some help while hearing relentless sounds of explosion.

Inside the bunker, around 30 Indian students are desperately waiting to return to their homes. They are among hundreds of Indians trapped in bunkers, basements, and apartments across the Kharkiv city amid the Russia-Ukraine escalation. Students taking refuge in bunkers said that they came to know about the bunkers from hostel authorities and they immediately moved to the bunkers following safety concerns.

“Bombing and shelling is continuously going on. Even right now as I am talking to you I can hear the sounds of explosion,” said 23-year-old Rahul Priya Nandan, an MBBS student at VN Karazin Kharkiv National University who has been spending one after another night in a bunker in Kharkiv city, seeking emergency assistance to reach India, but none of these efforts have materialised.

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