When D. Ajith Raj spoke to his elder brother Anand in Odappaviduthi village, Karambakkudi Block in Pudukottai district on Saturday morning, he was making his way down to the underground bunker along with his mates on the campus of the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University in the west central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.
“My brother said he hadn’t eaten well for the past two days because food and water was in short supply. Ajith sounded worried and I could hear sirens blaring in the background,” Mr. Anand told The Hindu.
The family presented a petition to the Pudukottai District Collector, requesting the safe evacuation of Mr. Ajith, a first year medical student, on Saturday.
