Indian evacuee: 'The kindness of Ukrainians saved my life'
He'd never heard the sound of air-raid sirens and didn't understand the accompanying announcements blared out in Ukrainian.
Over the course of the next two days, Vinnytsia's sirens sounded every few hours, forcing Vishnu and his friends into the dark bunker beneath their apartment, which was full of rubble."I thought: 'Maybe I will die in this situation,'" he said.This was the scene after a missile hit a building at the airport on the outskirts of Vinnytsia
As the bus rolled through the roads of south-west Ukraine, Vishnu and his friends started to relax. There was one moment of tension when planes whizzed overhead - Ukrainian or Russian, Vishnu doesn't know - but for the most part they felt like they were moving to safety.Image caption,When the bus driver dropped Vishnu and his friends off, they joined a throng of hundreds of people trying to pass through a gate at the border.
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