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The plight of Indian students who are stuck in Ukraine, unable to escape the war, has prompted the country's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to  urge Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.  According to Ukrainian officials more than two thousand foreign students are unable to leave cities or towns close to Kyiv, further to the east and in the south of the country.  Mr Modi wants the two leaders to help evacuate the students and there've been similar pleas from other countries, including Nigeria.  Arindrom Phukon is an Indian medical student who is currently stuck in Sumy close to the Russian border. He says there are 800 other Indian students in his building and they wake each day to the sounds of "jets, firing and shelling", and that local people have been providing them with food, but with stocks running low, he doesn't know how long this will continue. He goes on to say that the buses came to evacuate them but that the evacuation failed as the ceasefire was broken, and that they do not know when they will be able to leave. Photo: Remains of residential building destroyed by shelling in the Sumy region of Ukraine Credit: Reuters