Ukraine invasion: Indian student killed as he tried to buy food

An Indian medical pupil changed into killed in shelling within the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv after he left the bunker he’d been sheltering in to shop for food.

One of his friends said Naveen S Gyanagoudar, 22, had spoken to him shortly before his loss of life on Tuesday.

Thousands of Indian citizens are nevertheless in Ukraine and are pleading to be evacuated after Russian troops invaded.

India has launched an operation to get its residents home but it is been facing logistical hurdles.

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India’s foreign ministry confirmed that Gyanagoudar had died in shelling in Kharkiv and stated it changed into in touch together with his circle of relatives.

Many students in Ukraine have been tweeting that locating meals and elements has end up hard considering that Russia invaded remaining week.

“He referred to as me at 8am Ukrainian time and asked me to transfer cash to him because he desired to buy more meals for us,” Gyanagoudar’s buddy, Srikanth Chennagowda, informed BBC Hindi from a refuge below an rental in Kharkiv.

The medical students were in their fourth 12 months at Kharkiv National Medical University.

Gyanagoudar left the shelter early inside the morning, proper after a curfew ended, to go to a close-by grocery store.

“I transferred the cash. After 5-10 minutes, I tried to contact him and he did no longer take my call. I tried in many instances. Later, a person replied but spoke in Ukrainian, which I did not apprehend,” stated Mr Chennagowda.

Then he asked any individual in the shelter to speak to the person at the smartphone, and learnt that his buddy had died.

“I could not consider it. I went to the supermarket and there has been no blast,” he said.

It’s now not clear where exactly Gyanagoudar came beneath attack.

Mr Chennagowda introduced that Gyanagoudar and the others inside the shelter had been making plans to transport out soon, as shelling became intensifying within the metropolis.

Gyanagoudar was from Haveri district inside the southern Indian nation of Karnataka. The state’s leader minister, Basavaraj S Bommai, tweeted that he turned into “shocked” by the information.

“We are continuously in contact with the MEA [Ministry of External Affairs] and could make all efforts to deliver back his mortal remains,” he introduced.

Mr Chennagowda defined Gyanagoudar as a “kind-hearted” and “exceptional” individual.

“He scored ninety five% in his third 12 months. He became a completely studious man and became also very humble.”