There are 37 people from UP in the first flight that reached Mumbai from Ukraine late on Saturday night. The second flight is likely to reach Delhi early Sunday. The state government has set up buses at Delhi airport to transport such people to different parts of the state. So far, 891 people of the state have shared information about being trapped at different places in Ukraine with the control room of the government. Additional Chief Secretary Revenue Manoj Kumar Singh said that arrangements have also been made to transport people reaching Delhi from the airport to UP Bhawan and food etc. The Additional Chief Secretary informed that the State Government has designated Relief Commissioner Ranvir Prasad as the nodal officer for coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and the Indian Embassy in Kiev to provide assistance to the people of the state trapped there in view of the emergency situation arising in Ukraine. .
He said that the local commissioner of the state has been directed to set up counters at the airport for the convenience of the citizens of the state coming back from Ukraine. They should ensure necessary arrangements while coordinating with the central government and all other concerned. He said that buses have been arranged to take people from UP Bhawan to the districts. The Additional Chief Secretary said that in view of the emergency situation arising in Ukraine, the State Government has designated Relief Commissioner Ranvir Prasad as the nodal officer for coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and the Embassy of India in Kiev to provide assistance to the people of the state trapped there. . The state government has also set up a control room in the state. Here people are constantly registering information about their loved ones being trapped in Ukraine.
In Dnepro, Ukraine, where Indian students became fascinated by grain. For eight to ten hours, their bowels swelled with hunger, while the students, who stayed at the school near the embassy in Kharkiv, had to spend the night on boiled rice. Even the chill of minus five degree Celsius was tolerated by the students, but when the embassy asked them to leave the school and hide in the metro station, their despair increased.
Students of Lucknow, trapped in war-torn Ukraine, narrated their pain to AnyTV on Saturday. In the conversation, his tears even spilled. The students who are pleading for help have only one wish that they can return back to their land. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine. Thousands of Indian students are stranded in different cities of Ukraine amid fierce bombing and are pleading for help from the government on social media. Manoj Yadav, a Lucknow student studying in Dnepro’s Medical College in eastern Ukraine, said that hundreds of students are trapped here, but only Ukrainians are getting help.
Indian students are not being helped. The students are hungry for the last eight to ten hours. Not only this, many have become victims of hypothermia. But there is no provision of medicines. Here the whole day of Saturday is spent in the chill in minus five degree Celsius temperature. Priyal Mishra, a resident of Aliganj, has been stuck for 24 hours at Naukova metro station in Kharkev, Ukraine. Family members as well as relatives are worried for the safe return of Priyal. Priyal told that only bread and water are left. That too has come to an end. In such a situation, the crisis of ration has arisen. There are more than five Indian students at the metro station here. The condition is getting worse. Her father Bharat Bhushan Mishra is very worried about the daughter.
Madhu Verma, a resident of Phoolbagh, is trapped in Kharkiv. She told that for the last three days, I am stuck with hundreds of students in a school built near the Indian Embassy. Bathing and washing is a distant thing, even food is not being completed. It is also not known whether food will be available the next day or not. We ate the boiled rice that we got, dividing it amongst ourselves. The extent was reached when the Indian Embassy officials on Saturday evening left the school and went to the metro station. which is underground. But the bus that was called to take us there, more than sixty passengers could not sit in it. In such a situation, the hands and feet of three and a half hundred students became cold. Where will we go next, how will we go, what will happen to us, no one is going to ask.
NGOs ready to help, but need facilities
Students trapped in Kharkiv told that it is not that NGOs in Ukraine are not willing to help Indian students. More than hundred NGOs are in touch with the students. They are ready to distribute ration to other essential items, but due to lack of transport facility, even the hands and feet of NGOs seem to be tied. This problem is coming up not only in Kharkiv, but also in places like Dnepro, Kiev etc.
When the son got into trouble, the mother asked for help
The information about where Seema Aggarwal is from could not be found. But, her husband died during COVID. His son Aditya Agarwal is doing MBBS in Kharkiv Medical College. When Russia invaded Ukraine and her son got into trouble, she created a Twitter account and is constantly asking for help on it. He wrote that two hundred students are stranded with their son, who are in need of help.
Network collapsed, social media supported
Indian students trapped in Ukraine are constantly engaged in contacting their families. Manoj Yadav of Lucknow, who lives in Denpro, said that the communication system has come to a standstill due to the war. Mobile network not working. In such a situation, social media has helped a lot. With the help of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, they are connected with their families and are getting well through video calls.
MLA wrote a letter to the foreign minister
The news of Russian bombing on Ukraine shakes the heart of the family of retired teacher Mohammad Hussain, resident of Khujhauli in Mohanlalganj. Hussain’s son Tahir Hussain is trapped in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The family is in touch with him through WhatsApp call. Elder brother Hafiz Hussain told that Tahir has run out of food and drink. The pocket is also empty, the amount sent by the family is not reaching it. So somehow food is being provided with the help of colleagues. Hafiz has appealed to regional MLA Ambrish Singh Pushkar and PM Narendra Modi for help. On the other hand, the MLA has written a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar requesting him to return home to Tahir.