Tanzania has said it has negotiated a safe passage with Russia for its students studying in a Ukrainian university near Kharkiv.
The Tanzanian embassy in Moscow had now asked its nationals studying at the Sumy State University in eastern Ukraine to head to the Russian border.
The announcement of the safe corridor came after diplomatic talks with Russia.
It was not immediately clear how many Tanzanian students are in Sumy.
Mwananchi newspaper has reported that more than 400 Tanzanian students in Odesa and 200 in Kyik had already left Ukraine.
