with the russian government for the evacuation of the students from cities closer to the russian border the foreign secretary had held talks with the russian ambassador in new delhi in this regard and the response was favourable the officials from the indian mission in moscow will visit the russian border areas and take account of the situation to evacuate the students muraleedharan saidsriperumbudur samaritan distributes free foodwhen the war broke out in the early hours of thursday bala sankar a native of sriperumbudur in tamil nadu who runs an indian restaurant in ukraines kharkiv for the past 10 years had to immediately shift his wife sonia a ukraine national and their sixmonthold baby maran to a safe place about 100km away from the city however sankar stayed back in the war zone against his wifes request and ever since he and his two brothers appu krishnan and sujit kumar have been helping the indian students stranded in bun kers by providing them with food and waterover the past five days balas restaurant 1kg biriyani and his charity organization maran foundation named after his baby have reached out to over 1500 indian students they cooked food like biryani and pasta at their restaurant using the available stocks and delivered over 1500 food packets to stranded indian studentswe have been associating with the ukrainian tamil association and have been helping orphans and homeless people for many years ukraine is my second home and the country has provided me with a new life so i want to help people when the country is facing severe trouble we got to know that hundreds of indian students are stuck in bunkers without food and water short age of food and water is the main issue faced by those stranded in kharkiv so we decided to cook food and distribute it until we ran out of groceries sankar saidas their grocery stock depleted and there we re no shops open on monday they had to procure fruits like apples and bananas to the students instead of cooked food many times they were stopped by the ukrainian police and russian army for checking but they let them go after seeing the food packets often the bomb shells hit the road right in front of their vehiclesthe first day i distributed food in some of the metro stations students added me to whatsapp groups and let me know if they were in need of food the only problem is that we could not reach out to all of them sometimes the army stops us and inspects our vehicle they warn us not to roam around during curfew hours and ask us to hide in bunkers if we hear sirens they are supportive now as we have very little time we inform students in advance to wait at the entrance by the time we reach there now we are trying to procure groceries from the outskirts of the city he saidthough he is not sure how