"Don't Want To Get Stuck": Some Indian Students Return From Russia
NDTV
Some Indian students are returning from Russia as parents get worried after seeing students in conflict-hit Ukraine and over the threat of a wider conflict
More and more Indian students are being brought home safely in evacuation flights from conflict-hit Ukraine's neighbouring countries under Operation Ganga. However, some have returned from Russia, whose armed forces have invaded Ukraine.
Khushi Singh, 22, and eight of her classmates have retuned to Delhi from Russia. The second-year medical student said her parents were worried about the overall situation, after seeing the reports of some Indian students stranded in the crossfire in Ukraine. She said her parents factored in the possible threat of a wider conflict over President Vladimir Putin's orders on keeping Russia's nuclear forces on a high alert.
"Russia is issuing nuclear threats and the situation is scary," Ms Singh told NDTV outside the Delhi airport's arrival terminal this morning. Her father, who came to receive her, said they called her back home because they didn't want her to "get stuck like the students in Ukraine".
"The conditions there didn't seem suitable. Our parents were panicking, asking 'come home, come home'. So we thought about it. Russia has also given a kind of nuclear threat, so we thought we will leave," Ms Singh told NDTV.