"You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route


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  • Friday, 25 Feb 2022

People on a motorbike drive past the Ukrainian embassy in Abuja, Nigeria February 25, 2022. REUTERS/ Afolabi Sotunde

(Reuters) - When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down from his high-rise apartment in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning, the street below was clogged with traffic. People hurried along the sidewalks, wheeling suitcases behind them.

The Ghanaian engineering student went to a window on the other side and discovered why: Russian planes were flying low above the city, trying to evade missiles that rifled through the sky - a scene resembling one of his favourite video games, Call of Duty.

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