Ukraine evacuations: Karnataka students start returning
The Hindu
Students from India still stranded in various parts of Ukraine continued to appeal to the Indian government to rescue them
The first batch of students from Karnataka who were stuck in the war-hit Ukraine arrived in Bengaluru on February 27 morning.
They told KSDMA officials that they were evacuated through Romania. “All the documentation was done in the buses we were travelling in,” they said.
According to KSDMA Commissioner Manoj Rajan, 12 students who had reached Mumbai reached Bengaluru at 8:45 am at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). “Thirteen students have reached New Delhi in the second batch and are now in Karnataka Bhavan. Five students just arrived and will be taken to the Bhavan. All 18 will be booked on flights today,” Mr. Rajan told The Hindu. Meanwhile, students from India still stranded in various parts of Ukraine continued to appeal to the Indian government to rescue them. One student, Arshsalan Azeem, who is stuck in Lviv, told The Hindu late on February 26 night, “We just heard sirens in our city. Everyone is saying that there can be attacks here tonight. We are so tired and scared.” He shared a video of students holed up in the hostel and said they may soon run out of water. Though many of them took a bus close to the border and walked 20 km, they were turned back, he said, adding that they had to walk back the same distance. “There are no taxis either. Only private vehicles are being allowed. We don’t know what to do,” said the medical student.
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