Ukraine invasion: Indian student killed as he tried to buy food
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Naveen S Gyanagoudar studied at the Kharkiv National Medical University
An Indian medical student was killed in shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after he left the bunker he'd been sheltering in to buy food.
One of his friends said Naveen S Gyanagoudar, 22, had spoken to him shortly before his death on Tuesday.
Thousands of Indian citizens are still in Ukraine and are pleading to be evacuated after Russian troops invaded.
India has launched an operation to get its citizens home but it's been facing logistical hurdles.
India's foreign ministry confirmed that Gyanagoudar had died in shelling in Kharkiv and said it was in contact with his family.
Many students in Ukraine have been tweeting that finding food and supplies has become difficult since Russia invaded last week.
"He called me at 8am Ukrainian time and asked me to transfer money to him because he wanted to buy more food for us," Gyanagoudar's friend, Srikanth Chennagowda, told BBC Hindi from a shelter under an apartment in Kharkiv.
The two medical students were in their fourth year at Kharkiv National Medical University.
Gyanagoudar left the shelter early in the morning, right after a curfew ended, to go to a nearby supermarket.
"I transferred the money. After 5-10 minutes, I tried to contact him and he did not take my call. I tried many times. Later, someone answered but spoke in Ukrainian, which I did not understand," said Mr Chennagowda.
Then he asked somebody in the shelter to speak to the person on the phone, and learnt that his friend had died.
"I could not believe it. I went to the supermarket and there was no blast," he said.
It's not clear where exactly Gyanagoudar came under attack.
Mr Chennagowda added that Gyanagoudar and the others in the shelter were planning to move out soon, as shelling was intensifying in the city.
Gyanagoudar was from Haveri district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The state's chief minister, Basavaraj S Bommai, tweeted that he was "shocked" by the news.
"We are constantly in touch with the MEA [Ministry of External Affairs] and will make all efforts to bring back his mortal remains," he added.
Mr Chennagowda described Gyanagoudar as a "kind-hearted" and "brilliant" person.
"He scored 95% in his third year. He was a very studious guy and was also very humble."
Naveen S Gyanagoudar studied at the Kharkiv National Medical University
An Indian medical student was killed in shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after he left the bunker he'd been sheltering in to buy food.
One of his friends said Naveen S Gyanagoudar, 22, had spoken to him shortly before his death on Tuesday.
Thousands of Indian citizens are still in Ukraine and are pleading to be evacuated after Russian troops invaded.
India has launched an operation to get its citizens home but it's been facing logistical hurdles.
India's foreign ministry confirmed that Gyanagoudar had died in shelling in Kharkiv and said it was in contact with his family.
Many students in Ukraine have been tweeting that finding food and supplies has become difficult since Russia invaded last week.
"He called me at 8am Ukrainian time and asked me to transfer money to him because he wanted to buy more food for us," Gyanagoudar's friend, Srikanth Chennagowda, told BBC Hindi from a shelter under an apartment in Kharkiv.
The two medical students were in their fourth year at Kharkiv National Medical University.
Gyanagoudar left the shelter early in the morning, right after a curfew ended, to go to a nearby supermarket.
"I transferred the money. After 5-10 minutes, I tried to contact him and he did not take my call. I tried many times. Later, someone answered but spoke in Ukrainian, which I did not understand," said Mr Chennagowda.
Then he asked somebody in the shelter to speak to the person on the phone, and learnt that his friend had died.
"I could not believe it. I went to the supermarket and there was no blast," he said.
It's not clear where exactly Gyanagoudar came under attack.
Mr Chennagowda added that Gyanagoudar and the others in the shelter were planning to move out soon, as shelling was intensifying in the city.
Gyanagoudar was from Haveri district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The state's chief minister, Basavaraj S Bommai, tweeted that he was "shocked" by the news.
"We are constantly in touch with the MEA [Ministry of External Affairs] and will make all efforts to bring back his mortal remains," he added.
Mr Chennagowda described Gyanagoudar as a "kind-hearted" and "brilliant" person.
"He scored 95% in his third year. He was a very studious guy and was also very humble."
Many ,many Ukranians have already been killed by Russian artillery shelling, ballistic missiles and cluster Bombs,.so this is just another tragedy caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteSharp shell fragments can sometimes fly a long way, out of sight from the origin exploding shell , so happens without hitting anything in between and still have enough kinetic energy to kill.
'Many, many Ukranians have already been killed by..'
DeleteHow many ? Piles and piles of bodies, right ? hehe
Of course your source of the death counts in this Ukraine crisis is from the Western MSM, right ? No need to prattle on about fcuking kinetic energy and shell fragments. The neo-Nazi Azov militia had training from CIA and freely implement the False Flag attacks so favoured by these thugs...killing their own Ukrainian civilians and blaming it on the Russians. You should find out more about the atrocity and the heinous killings perpetrated on the poor souls in Donbass for 8 years ! Killing their own fella citizens
"Somehow, it’s psychologically hard for people to think that their government might stage false flag attacks. However, as recently declassified documents show, the CIA had many such ideas – killing boatloads of Cuban refugees or blowing up ships and then blaming Fidel Castro; carrying out “terror campaigns” – their own words – with bombs in Miami and Washington D.C. to frame Castro; and buying Russian planes to attack US soldiers to start a war with the Soviet Union."
Wakakakaka…
DeleteKnow nothing & self-indulgent imaginations fuelled by fake news & lies propagated by western media!
Where r the REAL footages of the ballistic missiles and cluster Bombs scenes?
NO… no… not those explosions that CNN/BBC shown on their TV broadcasts!
Judging from the residual damages caused, these attacking projectiles r just small power rockets shooting from a hand-held devices. Their damaging firepowers r much much less in comparison to ballistic missiles!
Besides, many of these rocket projectiles were actually mistakenly fired by the confused/inexperienced Ukrainian armies in handling their archaic & poorly maintained weaponry.
Cluster Bombs?
Cluster munitions are dropped from aircraft or fired from the ground or sea, opening up in mid-air to release tens or hundreds of submunitions, which can saturate an area up to the size of several football fields. Anybody within the strike area of the cluster munition, be they military or civilian, is very likely to be killed or seriously injured.
So far there r NO signs of large casualties showing the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine!
It's just a convenient fear-mongering used by these mfering western mouthpieces.
In fact, if one looks at the lenient treatments, mind u as broadcasted by CNN/BBC, of the occupying Russian armies towards the local Ukrainians one would wonder how much truths r in those atrocious Russian military operations!
Wakakakakaka… no running/rolling over a small group of unarmed protesting Ukrainian civilian standing in front of the advancing army convoy. They were JUST been slowly pushed away by the moving vehicles!
The 'courageousness' of these Ukrainians r been emphasized no ends. Yet, the compassionate Russian armies r been ignored!
Mfers, these Russian armies r treating those opposing Ukrainians as blood brothers/sisters while fighting a difficult war with the far right Ukrainian nationalists!