KOCHI : Following the death of an Indian student in Kharkiv on Tuesday and the embassy advising all Indian nationals to leave Kyiv urgently, students from Kerala who had sought shelter in bunkers in Kharkiv were a worried lot as they faced a tough choice between taking the risk of travelling to the western borders or staying in bunkers to safeguard themselves.
Siby Mathew, a student of VN Karazin Kharkiv National University and a native of Thiruvananthapuram, said that it was only after he dared to start the journey towards the western borders that he heard the news about the youth’s death in Russian shelling.
