Russia-Ukraine War
An Indian student was shot at and wounded while he was trying to escape the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the eighth day of Russia-Ukraine war, Union Minister VK Singh confirmed on Thursday.
The injured student has been hospitalised.
Union Minister VK Singh told ANI, "We heard reports that a student leaving Kyiv was shot. He was taken back into Kyiv and immediately taken to hospital. This is happening in the fighting."
According to reports, the Indian student Harjot Singh was on his way to Lviv by car when he was attacked and wounded.
He was taken by ambulance to Kyiv, near the Indian Embassy.
The development comes three days after Indian national Naveen Gyandagoudar, a 21-year-old student from Karnataka, was killed in shelling on Feb 1 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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