: A blow-by-blow account of an Indian student trying – and failing – to escape Kharkhiv in Ukraine #IndiaNEWS Wednesday marks the seventh day of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. One of the worst-hit

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A blow-by-blow account of an Indian student trying – and failing – to escape Kharkhiv in Ukraine #IndiaNEWS
Wednesday marks the seventh day of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. One of the worst-hit cities is Kharkhiv, 480 km east of the capital, only 40 km south of the Russian border.Here, shortly after dawn on Wednesday, Pralay Kumar Nayak and four other medical students from India had their backpacks ready. They huddled close in one corner of Studenska metro station, with water and ready-to-eat food packets that they had packed overnight. As Nayak had recounted in detail in a conversation with Scroll.in on Tuesday, shelling had forced the students to bunker down in the metro station, venturing out only to buy groceries. But food and water had started running out. Worse, one of their seniors, fourth-year medical student Naveen SG, died in shelling on Tuesday, while he was out on a grocery trip. Alarmed, Nayak and his group decided to leave the city, even if that meant walking 14 km to the nearest railway station, Pivdenniyi Vokzal, located in the central part of the city. They hoped to board a train to Lviv, a city 1,000 km away, near the Ukraine-Poland border.“We had waited for the Indian government long enough to rescue us,� said Nayak, a 19-year-old from Odisha, enrolled in the second year of Kharkhiv...Read more

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