The sound of windowpanes of their house shattering in a pre-dawn blast in the neighbourhood woke up Munna and his friends at Kharkiv when Russia started bombing Ukraine’s second-largest city last week. That was when they were desperately waiting for a signal from the Indian embassy to move to Lviv in the western part of the country.
"I may have survived the worst crisis in life," says Munna (Mohammed Munthazeer), a second year student at Kharkiv National Medical University.
Back home, students recall the chilling experiences of traversing along conflict zones to reach the border. Now, they fervently pray for the safety of the ones still stuck in many provinces of the war-torn nation.
