Father Of Indian Student Killed in Russian Shellings Alleges, ‘Embassy Did Not Contact Students Trapped In Kharkiv’
New Delhi, 1st March 2022: An Indian student, a resident of Karnataka, was killed in a gunfight in war-torn Ukraine’s Kharkiv city on Tuesday morning. This is the first case of the death of an Indian person in the ongoing war in Ukraine after the Russian attack.
Gyangoudar, father of the student who was killed in a gunfight in Ukraine amid a Russian attack, on Tuesday alleged that “no one from the Indian embassy contacted the Indian students stranded in Ukraine’s Kharkiv.”
The family members of victim Naveen Shekharappa Gyangoudar said, “Naveen was a fourth-year student at Kharkiv Medkill College.” His uncle Ujjanagouda claimed that Naveen was trapped in a bunker in Kharkiv along with other students from Karnataka. He had gone to exchange currency and get food items in the morning when he came under the shelling and died.
Ujjanagouda said, “he had spoken to his father on phone only on Tuesday and told that there was nothing to eat or drink in the bunker.”
After the tragedy, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai called up Gyangoudar and offered his condolences.
Bommai assured Gyanagoudar that he would do everything possible to bring back the body of his son to India. The Chief Minister also told him that he was in touch with the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs.
The bereaved father told Bommai that Naveen had spoken to him on the phone (Tuesday) in the morning. Gyangoudar told that Naveen used to call him two-three times daily.
