Student stranded in Sumy, Ukraine: 'The fear is: how long will we be like this?

More than 500 international students are trapped in Sumy, a town 40km from Ukraine’s north-east border that has been battered by days of shelling by Russian forces.Oyinkan Juliet Ibikunle, a final-year medical student from Nigeria, studying at Sumy University, explains the situation of many students stranded in Ukraine. The town was left with no water and power.

Most of the students are Nigerian, while others are from Ghana, Ethiopia, Angola, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ireland, India, Lebanon and Turkey. They have all found themselves stranded in a war zone