at the ukraine border amid the crowds of students thronging the checkposts signs of mental fatigue and exhaustion are beginning to surface students as well as those volunteering at the borders say they have had instances of disorientation and panic in the last couple of days at the polandukraine border prasoon premam part of a volunteer group helping indian students says he has met with some who broke down at having been beaten by the ukrainian army that was trying to control the swelling crowd trying to cross the border some students are in a state of shock and cannot speak few ww were crying uncontrollably students have lost their passports jackets and valuables in the crowd leaving them stranded at the border some are telling us of nightmares of guns pointed at them the students keep talking about how they thought they were going to die says premam when you realise no one is coming to save you your mind goes into panic says goutham r a student of kharkiv national medical university it was 2000 kilometres to lviv to safety and we had to do it on our own says goutam who is still a few days away from reaching his home mogappair west the level of stress and anxiety he explains is high a s s t u d e n t s scramble to make it home i m j u s t tense as to how to escape while gouthams first thought was to flee shree nithy and her friends remained transfixed in their hostel staring out the window and seeing and hearing gunshots it took us a while to even realize we had to leave says the firstyear medical student and from then on making it out to the hungarian border was a nightmare the railway station was so crowded that we lost two members of the group while boarding the train that was one of the moments i was most afraid another was when a girl in the railway station collapsed because she had a panic attack because of the crowd i knew i had to be brave and just get out says shree now waiting in hungary for a flight to trichy businessman jagadeswara rao maddukuri who is helping with student evacuation efforts in poland says he has had instances of two or three students who have collapsed at the border unable to speak and are disoriented we are trying to organize medical help says rao president of the poland india business council ashok revari a firstyear medical student in ukraine has reached safety in poland but cannot shake off the racking cough he picked up along his 30kilometre trek in 7 degrees celsius we had to sleep on the roads there was no shelter i couldnt drink the water because it was like swallowing ice there was no food some of the students who were getting hypothermic and losing consciousness because of the biting cold says revari who has