About three hundred thousand Nigerian students trapped in Sumy, Ukraine have appealed for urgent evacuation back home amid a Russian invasion.
Sumy is located in North-East Ukraine and close to the Russian border.
The Nigerian government has evacuated about one thousand Nigerians who made it out of Ukraine to neigbouring countries.
The students cried out saying that they have no access to food, water and electricity.
“We wake up most mornings to the sound of explosions and spend hours in bomb shelters beneath our hostels.”
“This is Day 10, people don’t have water, people don’t have light in hostels. It’s getting cold in the hostels. There is no food. We are running out of supplies. We are calling on the Nigerian government, on the foreign affairs ministry. We want to go home.”
The Nigeria Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said government is making efforts to ensure that students who are still trapped in Ukrain are evacuated safely.
