Indian Couple Fleeing Ukraine Cross From "Cruelty To Hospitality"
NDTV
The couple spent the night at a wedding and events venue in the village of Corbeanca nestled next to a lush forest, the ceiling covered in fairy lights.
Harsh Panwar and his girlfriend Reva Shrivastava slept soundly for the first time in a week at a shelter in a wedding venue near the Romanian capital Bucharest, after fleeing Ukraine to the sound of sirens warning of Russian air strikes.
Mr Panwar, 21, and Ms Shrivastava, 19, met and fell in love while studying medicine at a university in western Ukraine.
After the Russian invasion began, they and many of their compatriots joined long queues of Ukrainian women and children and other foreigners streaming across the border into neighbouring Romania.
"It was just like crossing the border from cruelty to hospitality," said Ms Shrivastava, recalling the crush of crowds and loud yelling amidst the confusion.
