Crimea's Indian students on edge

Student Nivedita Ghose never imagined that studying diseases could place her in the theatre of operations where the tensest geopolitical conflict between Russia and the United States since the end of the Cold War is unfolding, writes Charu Sudan Kasturi for The Telegraph India.

Since Friday, the student at Ukraine's Crimea State Medical University in Simferopol has put aside her textbooks, keeping track of the frenzied evacuation plans at the university as Russian troops occupy the city.

Nearly 700 Indian medical students at the Crimea State Medical University are caught in the heartland of the conflict over Ukraine. More than 5,000 Indian medical students are enrolled at multiple Ukrainian universities in Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa and Lugansk, apart from Simferopol - attracted by even lower fees than offered by Chinese medical schools.
Full report on The Telegraph India site