ZAID NAYEEMI
Bengaluru, 26 February 2022: Indian students say that they are being evacuated by
the Indian Embassy if they are living in Western Ukraine but those evacuations
are not happening in Eastern Ukraine.
They feel it is because Eastern parts are more exposed to the country’s borders.
Students in Eastern Ukraine’s cities such as Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk-
Makiivka, Zaporizhzhia, Mariupol, Luhansk, Horlivka, and Kamianske, are
more worried about their evacuation.
One medical student from Bengaluru, who does not wish to be named and lives
in Vinnytsia, 150 km south of Kyiv city, said that evacuations would start soon.
He said his city is safer than other larger cities.
Sampath Gowda, a medical student from Gubbi, Karnataka, and Neha Gowda
from Bengaluru, said that the Indian Embassy had not been replying to queries.
Lalit, Emergency Control Room, Ministry of External Affairs, said that Indian
government is in talks with the Ukrainian officials in Eastern Ukraine and a
reply from the government there is awaited.
We are yet to get a response from Sanjay Rawat from the Indian Embassy in
Ukraine.
According to Karnataka Nodal Officer Manoj Rajan, their office has received
three hundred and forty-seven requests from the people of Karnataka who are
stranded in Ukraine as of 26 February, 12:00 PM.
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