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“I live in Kharkiv and in the last few days I have seen tanks and soldiers walking in the city. I am growing increasing worried that the conflict will escalate and we will be trapped here,” Sarah, a Moroccan student stranded in Ukraine, told The New Arab. Situated on the Ukrainian-Russian border, the city of Kharkiv is at the heart of the rising tensions between Moscow and NATO-backed Kyiv. Having to juggle university, COVID and now the possibility of an all out war, Sarah told us that the imminent threat of action has meant that many students are going through a period of crippling anxiety. “…