Reports have emerged of foreign students alleging severe racism as they flee Ukraine, claiming they have faced violence and unfavorable treatment while trying to cross the border.
One Nigerian student told CNN “Ukrainians have been prioritized over Africans – men and women – at every point. There’s no need to ask why. We know why.”
Allegations included beatings, and Ukrainians being given transport while foreigners have been made to walk vast distances between checkpoints.
African students in Sumy protesting that the Ukrainian armed forces are holding them in the city
Reports surface of African and Indian students being insulted and kicked off an evacuation train bound for Western Ukraine.
Putin tells Modi that Ukrainian security forces are preventing Indian students in Kharkiv from leaving the city and essentially using them as a human shield.