International affairs expert Dr Mridula Ghosh said what is happening in Ukraine is not a danger for it alone, but also for any other country. “Russian President Vladimir Putin is out to destroy the country. Can he win the love of people here by bombing them?” she asked.

An academician from Kolkata, who now teaches in Kyiv, she minced no words while condemning the Russian attack. She said the Russian president was spreading lies by distorting history, and his forces have been attacking the Ukraine for a long time. “The issue of falsifying history is proven by top historians like Timothy Snyder and Serhii Plokhy of Harvard University,” she said.