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Nigerian student documents journey fleeing Ukraine

A student from Nigeria has recounted his four-day, 590-mile journey trying to escape war-torn Ukraine after he and hundreds of others were told they could not pass through the border by 'racist' guards.

Alexander Somto Orah, 25, spent four days trying to escape from Kyiv where he was studying at the Ukrainian capital's State University of Telecommunications.

The Nigerian student gathered his belongings and headed for the border a day after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

But he and hundreds of other students were stopped from reaching the border of Poland by guards who said no to 'Indians, Africans and Middle Easterners', ordered to make their way to another border