Thousands of Indian students caught in crossfire in Ukraine

Students in a bunker at their university in Sumy, in north-eastern Ukraine. PHOTO: KUHU KATARIA
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KOCHI (Kerala)/NEW DELHI - Twenty-five-year-old Kuhu Kataria was on track to become the first doctor in her family, with only two months left to complete a course towards a medical degree.

But all Ms Kataria, who has been in Ukraine for over five years, wants to do now is leave the country she describes as her second home.

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