(GIN)—At least 1,700 foreign students are still trapped in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, as shelling from the Russian army continues for a tenth day. Promised humanitarian corridors have failed to materialize.
“We are really demoralized, everybody wants to go home,” Precious Ogunbayo, a 21-year-old medical student from Nigeria, told Al Jazeera. “We keep asking for help, but it’s not coming at all.”
Like many others, Ogunbayo tried to flee the city, but taxi or bus drivers charged up to $400 per person when they could still be found cruising the streets. “You would have to be lucky to find a driver that knows the way and is willing to risk his life,” Ogunbayo said, adding that some who tried to escape with their own cars were shot at and returned to Sumy.
“March 3 was one of the most terrifying days,” Samuel Otunla, a graduate degree student in veterinary medicine recalled. “Once we got the safety warning and arrived in the basement, we heard one of the loudest explosions and in a few minutes, electricity went off—not just in our area but all over the city. Water was also off. Though it was restored 17 hours later, it was an uncomfortable experience.
The only response from the Nigerian government is to help students who have crossed the border to neighboring countries. But “we are 1,300 kilometers from the border so that doesn’t help us, at least not yet,” Otunla told Chiamaka Okafor, a Premium Times reporter.
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