The ripples of Russia invading Ukraine is being felt in India also. After the death of a 21-year-old student from Karnataka in shelling in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the safety of Indian students is at stake and the Indian Government’s efforts to bring them back is under scrutiny. The Centre claims that over 17,000 students were evacuated and it was swift in its operations. However, students stuck in Ukraine paint a different picture.

In a conversation with Radio City RJ Salil Acharya, the president of Indian students’ union at Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Divyanshu Gahlot, who returned to India from Ukraine on March 1, talks about surviving in sub-zero conditions at the border, why medical students choose to study abroad, and how the Indian Government didn’t give ‘proper advisory’.