New Delhi: President of the European Council Charles Michel on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and conveyed his condolences over the death of an Indian student in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. French President Emmanuel Macron also held a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Michel said the European countries are wholeheartedly helping evacuation of Indian citizens from Ukraine, asserting that the world must unite in defence of international law.
In the first Indian casualty in the war in Ukraine, the medical student from Karnataka's Haveri district was killed in intense shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a native of Chalageri, was studying at a medical college in Ukraine. "I expressed my condolences to @PMOIndia for the loss of life of an Indian student in #Kharkiv today due to indiscriminate Russian attacks against innocent civilians," he said on Twitter.
The EU official said the attacks on Ukraine is aimed to "destroy multilateralism and cause pain and suffering". "The world must unite in defence of international law," he said. The US embassy in New Delhi also said it is deeply saddened by the death of the Indian student.