Amit and Shrikanth still find it unbelievable that their close friend, Naveen S. Gyanagoudar, with whom they were planning ways to move out of the bunker in Kharkiv, is no more.
On Tuesday morning, Naveen was killed in a shelling by the Russian armed forces. He had stepped out of the bunker where he and his friends — all students of Kharkiv National Medical University — had hunkered down for the past six days.
“We have been living on chocolates and biscuits, as we ran out of food. Naveen stepped out to buy snacks from the supermarket that is just a few metres away from our bunker at about 6 a.m. He later contacted us asking us to transfer some money at 7.58 a.m. When he didn’t return, we called his number at 8.10 a.m. only to be told that he was no more. It was as if the ground beneath our feet had given away,” said a distraught Amit, a fifth year medical student, speaking to the media from the bunker.
