“Alhamdulillah (praise be to Almighty).” That’s the only word Sohan’s mother was repeating to her loving son over the phone after his safe arrival in Hungary from Ukraine. Sohanur Rahman Sohan, one of the Bangladeshi students in Ukraine, had never thought that he would go through such moments full of uncertainties in his life on a foreign land far from his mother and only brother. “It’s my mother whom I made the first call to after crossing the Ukraine-Hungary border and getting settled in Budapest. She was continuously turning to the Almighty in dua and kept offering Namaj seeking my safety,” Sohan told UNB over phone as he describes how life by its very nature is a test. The 23-year-old young man, a medical student of Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine got into trouble when he along with his two friends went to Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, from Uzhhorod to see off one of his Indian friends just a day before Russian forces launched attacks on Ukraine. Also read: In and out of Ukraine: Expats' families in Bangladesh live on prayers “The following day, I felt so helpless. I got very frustrated when cars kept refusing to take me and my friends to my city Uzhhorod due to long distance,” said Sohan, noting that he feared his dream to complete study from a leading university which has a rich history of more than six decades in the field of medical education would get shattered halfway. After a long wait, they managed to convince a car driver at a very expensive fare while Sohan kept updating his mother about everything.