The Central government through ‘Operation Ganga’ is evacuating the students stranded in Ukraine, however hundreds of Indian students who are stuck in where fighting between the Russian forces and Ukraine Army is taking place.
Hiding in bunkers, their supplies are diminishing and the cold temperature is adding to the woes, said the evacuated students after arriving here.
“Our friends are in bunkers in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions of Ukraine. They are in need of help. They have been languishing in the bunkers for a long time, the temperature is minus two degrees there, and they should be rescued at the earliest,” stated Vijayalkshmi, who landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Sunday morning.
She is one among the 12 students who arrived in Bengaluru from Ukraine after the war broke out. Thirteen more students have reached New Delhi in the second batch and they are stationed in the Karnataka Bhavan. Five more students, who have arrived, will also be taken to the Karnataka Bhavan. All of them will be sent to Bengaluru on the day itself after arrangements of transport are made, the Karnataka Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) authorities stated.
Vijayalkshmi said that she was stationed at a safe place, which was located 30 kilometres away from the border of Romania. “As soon as our embassy asked us to move, we started the journey and immediately reached. I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Government of India and our embassy in Romania,” she said.
“They took care and rescued us. Actually, the Indian media exaggerated things that caused panic among us and parents. The news of deaths initially disturbed us, though we wanted to remain calm. Now, there is a situation, they need help,” she stated.
“As many as 15,000 Indian students are in Ukraine. They are in need of help, especially those in Kharkiv and Kyiv. We don’t know where they are sleeping, where they are staying. We came back luxuriously, they don’t know what to do in this situation,” she said.
The parents of the students, who returned from Ukraine safely, thanked the Indian embassy and asked the government to bring them back from war-torn Ukraine.
