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An Indian student was killed during shelling in Ukraine’s Kharkiv today, the External Affairs Ministry said in a Twitter post. Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said: “With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family”. He also said the Foreign Secretary had called in the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors stationed in Delhi to ‘reiterate our demand for urgent safe passage for Indian nationals still in Kharkiv and cities in other conflict zones’. Bagchi also said Indian ambassadors in Kyiv and Moscow were undertaking similar action.
