We were thrown out of the train, beaten with sticks: Indian student trapped in Ukraine
The Indian government has launched a campaign to bring back Indian children trapped in Ukraine safely. They are being evacuated through Ukraine’s neighboring countries Hungary and Romania. Indians stranded in different parts of Ukraine are facing many problems in getting back. One of the many Indian students stranded in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv today sent a video to NDTV. In the video, the student told that the students who reached the railway station are being pulled out.”
Currently, about 350 students from two medical colleges in Kyiv are at the railway station, waiting to catch a train to Lviv or Uzhrohod in western Ukraine. However, he says that he is not being allowed to board the train. Those who manage to board the train are being “attacked with sticks” and thrown out.
Students of Taras Shevchenko National University and Bogomolets National M University say they were asked by the Indian embassy to go to Uzhrod or Lviv.
Third year student Radhika Lakshmi is heard saying in the video, “The embassy told us that today we are being evicted from Ukraine, so we all came on the Kyiv railway. We are being thrown out of the train. Not even being allowed inside… Students are being attacked with sticks and other things… There are hundreds of students here. We are all stuck here. Please do something quickly.”
India’s Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday that India will bring every citizen from the war-torn country, despite the difficult and complicated ground situation in Ukraine, “In such a situation (Indians stranded there) do not panic, contact the team of the Ministry of External Affairs. And don’t come straight to the border.
Significantly, due to the closure of Ukraine’s airspace, India is evacuating its citizens from there through its (Ukraine’s) border posts with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said that three more flights are planned in the next 24 hours, out of which two will come to India from Bucharest and one from Budapest carrying Indians. He said that so far 1396 Indians have been brought in six flights under Operation Ganga Abhiyan.
