TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Ukrainian guards were not allowing students to board trains and also beating up people, an Indian student who managed to reach the Kyiv train station said on Monday, making a fervent appeal to the Indian embassy to evacuate them as soon as possible.
“It’s getting difficult for us to stay here,” Ansh Pandita told as scores of Indian students, including women, sat huddled together at the teeming Vokzal railway station in Kyiv, holding a large tricolour aloft so they could be recognised in the crowd and also so no one from the group gets lost.
The group of about 100 students managed to reach the station but no one could board a train.“ Ukrainian soldiers are not allowing us to board the train to Hungary. In fact, they are not allowing any international resident to get out,” Pandita, a student of Taras Shevchenko National Medical University in Kyiv, said over the phone from the station.
“We requested them to at least allow the girls to go but that request too fell on deaf ears,” he said. Earlier in the morning, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine advised all Indian students stranded in Kyiv to reach the station so they could travel on to border countries and then move on homewards.
