‘Close to 80 students rescued from Ukraine’

Ranchi: Of the nearly 182 persons who are stranded in the war-ravaged country of Ukraine from Jharkhand, close to 80 students have returned to the state till now, officials at the state control room in Ranchi said on Friday. On Friday morning, a batch of 12 students landed at Birsa Munda International airport and two more batches are likely to return to Jharkhand by Friday night, the officials added.
Out of the 12 students who arrived in the morning, two arrived around 9:55 am in an Indigo flight while the rest arrived around 1:55 pm in another Indigo flight.
The students thanked the Government of India for making swift arrangements in bringing them back home safely. Talking to TOI, Vaibhav Mundra, who was studying medicine at a college in Lviv, said, “There are students from various countries who are pursuing higher education in Ukraine but the manner in which our government has carried out our evacuation is unmatchable.”
Recalling the hardships they had to go through in reaching the shelter camps situated in the neighbouring country of Poland, another medical student named Divya Singh said, “We faced many difficulties in reaching the Polish border as we had to travel on our own. However, once we reached the border, the Indian embassy officials took care of everything and provided us with food and lodging.”
Singh, who is from Chaibasa and was enrolled in a college in Kharkiv, said she is uncertain about her future as there is no possibility of colleges reopening any time soon. “Now that the war has started, we do not know what will happen next,” she added.