While the Government of India is continuing efforts to bring back Indian student Stranded in war-torn Ukraine, some of them living in bunkers, they are experiencing extreme anxiety as they have run out of food and water stocks with no way to reach the border areas.
Some students have started posting videos on social media to attract Indian Embassy Pay attention to them and their plight.
One of them, Sakshi Sudhakar, who is a fourth year medical student, recently took to Instagram to inform the authorities that she is stuck on MycoLive along with 300 other students.
Sakshi, who hails from Bejai in Karnataka, said, “The attack has been going on for three days and food and water resources are limited. We need to get out of this place, but there is no means of transport to reach the borders.”
“It is easy for people to say that we could have left earlier, but we had our reasons and there was nothing we could do about it. It is too late now and we request the embassy to take us to the border. The situation is dire. We are living in bunkers which are not comfortable. Washrooms are an issue and food and water supply is limited. Please help us,” he said.
The students who managed to make a safe return from Ukraine also spoke of how the depleting food stocks and long queues for water were adding to the shock of the stranded Indian students.
Payal Panwar, a final year medical student who returned to her Kotdwara home in Uttarakhand, said the stranded students need the help of the Indian government and people from the Indian embassy while they are still inside Ukraine, rather than When they came out of the war – a torn country.
Payal said, “Problems end when you cross the border but when you are inside Ukraine food supply runs out and ATMs don’t have cash. Stranded students need the help of Indian authorities. while they are still inside Ukrainian borders.” Who studies in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine.
Recalling his ordeal, he said that around 60-70 Indian students had to book a bus and cover a distance of 8-10 km in the freezing cold to reach the Romanian border to exit Ukraine.
He said that many ATMs could not dispense cash and at many places long queues of men and women were seen waiting for their turn for food supplies.
Though happy and relieved to be reunited with her parents, Payal and her parents are worried about their brother who was still stuck in Kharkiv.
An Indian student who managed to reach the Kyiv railway station said that Ukrainian guards were not allowing students to board trains and were also beating people up and appealed to the Indian embassy to evacuate them at the earliest.
As Indian and Ukrainian authorities on Monday described the situation as “complicated” and “very difficult” to evacuate people, students, along with their parents, appealed to the Indian government to expedite efforts to evacuate them .
in between, Indian Embassy Ukraine on Tuesday advised its citizens to leave the capital city of Kyiv “immediately today” amid a deteriorating security situation.
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