About 180 students from the state pursuing medical education at various universities in Ukraine are stranded after Russia started full-fledged attack on its neighbour on Thursday.
Parents back home are worried about their children’s safety in the war-torn east European nation. Some of them are struggling to get in touch with their wards who are staying in the conflict areas.
Moved to Bomb Shelters’
Four students from Bagalkot – Kiran Savadi, Manoj Chitragar, Apoorva Kadampur and Spoorthi Doddamani – were stranded at their college hostel till the local authorities moved them to a bomb shelter at a metro station, according to Dr Ganga Doddamani, mother of Spoorthi.
Sangmesh Soppimath from Kallur village in Yelburga taluk of Koppal district, a third-year medical student at Vinnytsia National Pirgov Memorial Medical College, is stranded at the college hostel. Koppal MP Karadi Sanganna has written to MEA to bring him back safely.
Flights cancelled
Suneha, daughter of Thippeswamy, a PWD engineer, and Padmavathi couple from Chitradurga, who was supposed to return home from Ukraine on Thursday, was left stranded at her hostel after the flights were cancelled.
Sneha Hosamani, a final year medical student from Mundgod in Uttara Kannada, is stuck at a house in Kharkiv along with several students from Karnataka. During a telephonic conversation, she told her parents about the missile attack by the Russian army close to her house.
Among the students from Karnataka stranded in Ukraine are Mahaganapathi Bilimaggad (Mundargi-Gadag); Jeevita Sindhe (Kalaburagi); Anaina Anna (Derebail, Mangaluru) and Clatan Osmand (Kulashekara); Rohan (Udupi); Nivedita Chandrashekar (Timmasandra-Ramanagara), Ayesha (Ramanagara); KM Manoj (Sakharayapatna-Ch’magaluru).
