Silchar boy stuck in Ukraine cries for help; “My friend a fellow India died today, help us before it is too late,” he shares

A 24-year-old youth from Shibbari Road, located in Silchar’s Atal Basti, is stuck in Ukraine due to the ongoing escalations between Ukraine and Russia. A medical student, currently in the fourth year of college is unable to reach home or find a safe shelter to feel protected. Mahbub Alam Mazumder, a Medical student of Sumy State University, in the eastern borders of Ukraine has sought help from the Indian Government to evacuate him along with over 500 students, who are of Indian origin.

In a video shared by the student, who seems very scared and tensed said, “I’m right now stuck in the most affected, eastern borders of Ukraine. Sumy state, which is closer to the eastern borders, is the area where we can hear regular shelling, airstrikes and gun firings. We are in constant terror. We can’t go out, we don’t have food and the market too has run out of basic food items. Every time we hear any firing sound, we’ve to rush to the bunkers”.

Speaking about help from the Indian Embassy, he said, “We’ve tried to reach out to the Embassy here in Ukraine, but it didn’t help. The embassy is only evacuating Indians from the western border, where the situation is much better. The Embassy said, they can’t help us in the eastern borders. Only today, one of my friends and fellow Indian died during shelling. I request the PM and the government to help us before it’s too late”.

Mahbub’s father, Abdul Mannan Mazumder speaking to the media said, “Our son, Mahbub has been trying since long to run out of war-torn Ukraine but he couldn’t. The condition is very dangerous there and so I request PM Modi and the government and also I beg in front of the Assam Government, to help and save my son’s life, along with all his Indian friends”.

“I’ll be ever grateful to the Indian Government”, he further said before breaking down into tears. Even though Mission Ganga of the Indian Government is in action, there are many students still stuck in the war-torn states. Mahbub has been studying medicine in Ukraine since 2018.