These Indian students are stuck in Ukraine

Brut India

Over 500 Indians evacuated so far. Indian students stranded in Kharkiv, Ukraine await their turn in a rapidly changing environment.

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00:00around 11 o'clock we were all asked to go underground

00:04we have been sleeping on the cold floor for the past one day and

00:07it's it's really hard and many people were having

00:11asthmatic problem and health issues hi everyone

00:15uh we are students at karkiv and apparently you guys might have all

00:20known of the situation here in ukraine it's pretty intense and it

00:24gets kind of worse as day passes

00:28so this all started yesterday around 5 a.m in the morning

00:33we were all asleep and apparently we heard

00:36a very strange noise at that time we didn't know what was going on

00:40by seven o'clock there were a lot of panic and we were asked to

00:46stock supplies like water and food and there was there was there was such an

00:52uncertainty in the situation that we didn't know how

00:55serious it was but we knew that it had something something it was

01:01something very intense and situation here is kind of

01:06getting bad because around 11 o'clock we were all asked to go underground and

01:12right now we are at the basement of our hostel

01:16uh it's kind of crowded here with around there are nearly 200 plus students over

01:21here and it's pretty crowded and as you can

01:25see there is not much space and there

01:30there is no ventilation here and yesterday it was all okay and it's

01:35been a week or two since it has snowed but today

01:39unfortunately the temperature dropped really low we haven't slept yesterday

01:43the whole day and today it's it's even more cold you can ask the

01:49students personally how they feel about the situation

01:53the we have been sleeping on the cold floor for the past one day and

01:57it's it's really hard most of us are sleep deprived

02:01and the worst part is being in the grey about the whole thing we haven't had any

02:05information from the indian embassy neither is anyone is informing us when

02:10we are going to get evacuated or anything

02:13and most of the students are in a really bad situation right now because

02:17a couple of us had booked tickets to go back to the home country but then the

02:21airspace got blocked by the russian army and

02:26yeah that's that's what i'd like to say about the current situation

02:33um i feel like the situation keeps getting worse

02:37day by day yesterday uh we were all panicking

02:41because we didn't know what really was happening and then

02:44today in the morning it started to top it all

02:47but the situation started snowing and the

02:51temperature here keeps fluctuating and drops

02:55and it's pretty hard to sleep you can you can see like how congested this

02:58place is and we don't know how long we can survive

03:02here without food and like water we have food for now

03:06but we don't know how much we have um yeah

03:13yeah through the visual you can able to find it out how the situation is it's

03:17very congested right here and we people are literally living here and

03:22the thing is it's outside it is minus three degrees

03:25celsius and very snowy and and here it's very cold and many people

03:30were having asthmatic problem and health issues especially for girls

03:34they can't able to go to washroom a lot of hygiene problems are there and

03:40it's very worse

03:44so i hope you all understand the seriousness of the situation

03:46um we are all stuck here nowhere to go so please send help we all need help

03:50from the embassy we are all asking for help thank you

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