Harjot Singh, the student who was shot at while trying to escape from Ukraine capital Kyiv, said he was hit multiple times and his leg was fractured, reports ndtv.com

"The bullet entered from my shoulder. They took out a bullet from my chest... my leg was fractured," Harjot Singh said, speaking from the Kyiv City Hospital.

"I kept calling officials. I wanted some facility to take me to Lviv. But no one has contacted me. Only NDTV reached out to me. Now the whole world will know the reality of what is happening," he said.

Harjot Singh was in a cab with his friends, trying to reach the border when he was shot. He was trying to escape Kyiv and somehow reach Lviv.

"I contacted the embassy people and asked if they can provide the facility to take me to Lviv. I can't walk. But all I get is fake comments," he said.

The student, who is from Chhattarpur near Delhi, said, "many more Harjots are trapped in Kyiv".

"Many have shut themselves in their homes, they don't know what is happening. I have been continuously trying to speak to embassy. But I told them - you left for Lviv even before us. The embassy is supposed to stay and help students," he said.

"My only message is that whatever has happened, we can't do anything about it. We can only hope for the best. People have seen me through NDTV... now people should know what the reality is... what is happening on the ground."

On his family back in India, he said, choking up: "My mother kept crying... Mothers will be mothers. My family could not stop weeping."

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine's borders since advisories were issued over a fortnight back. Over 6,000 have been flown back home, says the ministry.

Before the war broke out, around 20,000 Indians, mainly medical students, were in Ukraine.

Recently on March 1, a young Indian medical student, Naveen SG of Karnataka, was killed in shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv when he ventured out to buy food for himself and fellow students.

Union minister VK Singh said the Centre is making efforts to ensure that the maximum number of students can come out of Ukraine with as less loss as possible.

Thousands of students have been trying to escape Ukraine by somehow reaching the borders, where they can cross over to countries from where they are being flown back to India in evacuation flights under "Operation Ganga".

India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine's western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the Russian military offensive.

An Air India Express flight from Bucharest carrying 185 Indians stranded in Ukraine landed in Mumbai on Friday, an official said.

This was the fourth evacuation flight to have landed in Mumbai. Another flight, this one from Budapest, is likely to land in Mumbai around 8 am on Friday, the official said.