Ready to risk the life of so much love for a pet, Rishabh of Uttarakhand said – India cannot return from Ukraine without his dog

Because of the war, there is a threat of life in Ukraine every moment. In such a situation, while Indian students are somehow looking for a way back home, Rishabh Kaushik, a resident of Kishanpur in Dehradun, is not ready to return to India without his pet dog ‘Malibu’. Rishabh says that when he adopted Malibu, he had also taken up the responsibility of raising him, so leaving him and coming to India is not possible.

Rishabh Kaushik is pursuing his third year software engineering from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. Rishabh told ‘Dainik Jagran’ that he tried to get the necessary consents to return to India with his Dagi, but it did not succeed. The Embassy has asked him to go to India alone, but he has decided that if his Dagi does not accompany him, he himself will not come back. Said he knew that living in Ukraine was not free from danger. He told that arrangements had been made for him to go to India via Dubai, but he did not think it right to go home without his dagi. Said that he is hopeful that permission will be given from the Indian Embassy and both will reach home safely from Ukraine.

Indian Embassy disappointed

Rishabh is angry with the Indian Embassy. He said that we are trapped in the middle of the war, but the embassy did not even talk directly, far from helping. He told that the officials of the Embassy have clearly told him that we cannot help you. You can contact the Government of India. After the war started, the embassy called the students to the railway station or bus stop to take them to India. By following him, the students reach there by risking their lives, then the students do not get any official there. When contacted, the officials are retracting from their statement. In such a situation, the students are shying away from believing the statements of the Embassy.

Rishabh had reached Kyiv to meet the officials at the Embassy on 23rd

Rishabh told that he was engaged in the process of returning home from February 10. For this, he contacted the Indian Embassy in Kyiv with the Ministry of Civil and Aviation in Delhi, even after all the correspondence, he was not allowed to take Dagi home. In such a situation, on 23 February, he left for Kyiv from Kharkiv. In Kyiv, he was supposed to meet at the Indian Embassy and apprise him of his problem, but on February 24, at five o’clock in the morning, Russia attacked. Since then he is stuck in Kyiv. Told that he is in the house of an acquaintance in Kyiv. On hearing the detonation of the bomb, they run to the bunker built nearby. Standing in minus ten degrees for seven-eight hours is not easy. Now only two days of food and water are left. Day by day the trouble is increasing. On the 25th, a bomb went off in a building 400 meters away from our house. In which 23 people died. In such a situation, there is an atmosphere of fear.