CHENNAI: It’s a double tragedy for Jasmine (name changed), a 23-year-old medical student from Kerala, studying in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city. After weeks of unease when tensions escalated between Russia and Ukraine, Jasmine was rudely woken up around 5am on Thursday by air-raid sirens and sporadic sounds of missile attacks.
“We are scared and in a state of panic,” Jasmine told TOI from her apartment in uptown Kyiv. She and her friends learnt later that the bombing of Boryspil airport on the outskirts of Kyiv had begun at 4.30am.
