“We have reached the point beyond extreme fear, there isn’t anything left to feel. There is an empty silence inside me. If I survive, then that will be great, but if I don’t then also it's okay. I have done everything in my power to survive. But we’ve reached the end of our rope now. There is nothing more that we can do.”
Avantika, 21, spent her first night in a makeshift bunker on February 24. The bunker was originally the hostel gym at Kyiv Medical University, but now holds over 300 terrified Indian students, waiting to be evacuated.
