SOS from Indian students in the middle of an explosion, air strikes in Ukraine

Thiruvananthapuram: At Sumy Ukraine northeast, about 60 kilometers from Russia, Indian students stranded to send SOS messages, seek evacuation, amid increasing air.
“We can hear sirens and air strikes. We have rushed to our bunker now. We are in the middle of a high risk and uncertainty at this time. We are closer to Russia. Moving to the western part of Ukraine is not possible for us because of safety problems. We don’t have it yet Instructions or permission from the Ukrainian government to move towards the Russian border, “Swathil, a student at the Sumy Medical University said to NDTV.

About 700 Indian students have been stranded in Sumy and have made repeated appeals for evacuation.

“We were stuck in this bunker for a long time. We ran here after hearing a loud explosion outside. There is a bus on the Russian border, one and a half hours away but how we go from Ukraine get there this shoot and there is no direction,” said Third year medical students to NDTV.

“There’s no electricity crowding together in the bunker.

“Please take some immediate actions, as soon as possible. Or we will die for sure. There is a shortage of food and water that is severe,” one woman was heard said.

For many students who walked to Pisochyn from Kharkiv, based on advisors urged the Indian government on Wednesday, waiting for evacuation to panic in the middle.

“We are students from the National Medical University of Kharkiv. We are now stranded in Pisochyn. There is electricity, nothing here. There are no arrangements for buses or trains. There is no evacuation process here, good help from the embassy. We have no updates. We don’t have updates. We don’t have updates. We don’t have updates Really jammed. This is an agent who has given us a shelter. Nothing is provided by the embassy. They told us that we could be on the road. Please help us. We are stuck on this eastern border. We don’t even know whether it will There is evacuation or not “, a student in a video message to NDTV said. He didn’t want his name to be disclosed.

“We have heard some explosions since morning. Please help us. We are stuck here. There are even some women with us,” said other students in the video. They claimed that they were not allowed to make videos, but they did it with their mobile flash lights, hoping that the government would hear it. There are more than 300 students currently stranded in Pisochyn, waiting for assistance or direction from the Indian Embassy.

The government on Thursday said 3,000 Indians had been evacuated in 15 flights for the last 24 hours of the hit-hit Ukraine amid opposition criticism that the center was slow in evacuating its citizens.

The external ministry said more flights had been scheduled to get a student home under an evcuation program called “Ganga Operation”.