Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday spoke to the family of the Indian who died in a shelling incident in war-torn Ukraine.

Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, the deceased student, was a resident of the state's Haveri district. "It is a big blow. May the Almighty bestow eternal peace on Naveen. You must be brave to bear the tragic happening," Bommai told the family while expressing grief. The 21-year-old Indian, a student of Kharkiv National Medical University, was reportedly standing in a queue to buy food when he was killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv earlier today. "With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning.