A final-year medical student from Karnataka’s Haveri was killed in intense shelling by advancing Russian forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, prompting New Delhi to call in envoys of Russia and Ukraine and demand safe passage for thousands of Indians trapped in Ukraine.
Naveen Shekharappa Gyandagoudar from Haveri district 300km from Karnataka capital, was 21. He was a final year student at Kharkiv National Medical University. “It has been confirmed from MEA that a Karnataka origin person, Naveen, has died in a Kharkiv firing. Our chief secretary has spoken to the foreign secretary and confirmed this,” Manoj Rajan, the commissioner for disaster management and Karnataka’s nodal officer in charge of the evacuation of students from Ukraine said in a video message.
