Agartala Feb 27 PTI Akhangsha Bhowmik a fourth-year medical student in Ukraines V N Karazin Kharkiv National University is anxiously waiting to safely return home in Tripura capital Agartala She is among an estimated 50 medical students from the northeastern state who have been stranded in Ukraine after the Russian invasion For the last three days we have been hearing sounds of heavy bombing and shelling The stored water has been exhausted and food is also getting over We are going through difficult times Bhowmik told PTI over a WhatsApp call from Kiev The situation is worst in Kiev as there is no end to bombing and shelling There is panic and uncertainty all around I along with six other medical students have taken shelter in a bomb raid shelter where the temperature is around three to four degrees Celsius she said She appealed to the Government of India to evacuate them at the earliest as things are rapidly turning worse Sanjib Nath a resident of Dharmanagar in North Tripura is tensely waiting for the return of his 21-year-old son Dwaipayan a medical student in a Kiev-based institution He had gone to Kiev on December 11 last year to pursue medical studies Everything was fine until the Russian invasion He had a scheduled flight to Delhi on February 26 but it got cancelled due to heavy bombing and shelling around Kiev Nath said He said that his son and some of his friends from Tripura wanted to escape to Poland but could not and are now sheltered in a bunker Nath urged the Centre to evacuate his son and bring him back home I would be grateful if our government brings back my son and others from the war zone immediately he said Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said that the issue of evacuating students from Tripura has been taken up with the Ministry of External Affairs I am sure required help will reach the students soon until then I am requesting all to follow the advisory issued by GoI and Embassy of India Ukraine Deb had tweeted on Friday PTI PS ACD ACD