After the advisory by the Indian embassy in Ukraine, asking Indian nationals to leave Kharkhiv immediately, students in Sumy, a city just two hours from Ukraine's second-largest city, are tense about their evacuation.

 “I have been calling the Indian embassy and writing emails for a few days but there was no response. Finally, yesterday the officials from the Indian embassy picked up my call. The officials informed me that Kharkiv and Kyiv are affected worse than Sumy and to evacuate the students there was their priority.  “We have been asked to wait for two-three days in the bunker,” said Virali Thakor, a 5^th-year medical student, who is stuck with her friends in a hostel bunker at Sumy State University.