Treated like puppets at border by Ukraine soldiers: Student recounts horror

The student, who did not wish to be identified, spoke about how she and others were bullied by Ukrainian soldiers at the Polish border.

Indians at the Polish border are being bullied by Ukrainian soldiers and are being treated like "puppets", an Indian student claimed today after returning to Indore from the war-torn country.

The student, a medical student at Ukraine's Ternopil National Medical University, said around 60 of them had hired a bus from Ternopil on February 26 to reach the Ukraine-Poland border after Russia invaded the country.

"But due to heavy traffic and chaos on the way, we were asked to get down some 45 km from the border. We walked from there in the chilling cold but Ukrainian soldiers didn't permit us to cross," she alleged.

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"The Ukrainian soldiers were treating us like puppets, sometimes asking us to stand, sometimes telling us to sit. They also asked us to clap and laugh," the woman, who did not want to be identified, recounted.

Eventually, they were allowed to enter Poland on priority, she said, adding that she returned on an evacuation flight under the Centre's Operation Ganga.

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