New Delhi: The foreign ministry advised Indian students in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy to stay put and not endanger their lives after some of them warned on Saturday of leaving on foot for the Russian border.
Cooped up in World War II bunkers and hostel basements without power and water and surviving on subsistence ration over the past week in Sumy, over 700 Indian students hoped to be rescued from the embattled city when Moscow called a ceasefire to open a corridor for refugees in Mariupol and Volnovakha in the southeast.
But that hope soon faded as Russian forces started shelling those areas again.
“We are constantly hearing the sound of bombs, shells and gunshots. We are afraid. We have waited long and can’t do this anymore. We are risking our lives. We are moving towards the border. If anything happens to us, it’s the responsibility of the government and the Indian embassy,” said some of the students in a video message from Sumy State University on Saturday.
This story is from the March 06, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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