As Muokwudo tried to escape Ukraine, he says he encountered skyrocketing prices for bus fares which exhausted his financial resources. Meanwhile Korrine Sky, 26, a second-year medical student at Dnipro Medical Institute from Zimbabwe who now lives in Leicester, U.K. also in Dnipro fled the country as well. As Sky was leaving, she started sharing information with other Black students on pathways out of the country on the telegram social media app.