: In Sumy, students melt snow to get water: ‘Every time I call home, I think it’s the last call’ #IndiaNEWS The ominous siren went off for the second time on Thursday night as Russian jets zoomed

In Sumy, students melt snow to get water: ‘Every time I call home, I think it’s the last call’ #IndiaNEWS
The ominous siren went off for the second time on Thursday night as Russian jets zoomed past in the sky. At around 8.45 pm, a loud explosion followed – a factory near the Sumy State university in eastern Ukraine had been bombed. Hundreds of students rushed for a second time into underground bunkers. When they returned to their rooms an hour later, they found both electricity and water supply had snapped.In the past nine days, as Russian forces had pounded Sumy Oblast, a picturesque district in north-east Ukraine, just 48 kms from the Russian border, the students had witnessed several such bombings and disruptions. Usually, the supply of essential services would get restored after a brief interval. But this time, the water supply station near the university had been seriously damaged. There was no hope of getting water in the taps. On Friday morning, when a heavy spell of snowfall began, the students rushed out with their bottles. Melting the snow to get water was now their only hope. “Departmental stores have run out of water, they only have fizzy drinks,�? said Anuj Kumar, a final-year medical student from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr. “I used some water stored in bucket. But my friends had to...Read more

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