Agency, Kyiv/Brussels
Published by: Dev Kashyap
Updated Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46 AM IST
Summary
Russia Ukraine War Indian students stranded in Ukraine: Students allege that they were treated like this because India distanced itself from voting on a resolution tabled in the United Nations against the Russian attack on Ukraine. The students also shared videos in which soldiers were seen firing in the air and using force to disperse the students.
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The students allege that they were treated like this because India distanced itself from voting on a resolution tabled in the United Nations against the Russian attack on Ukraine. The students also shared videos in which soldiers were seen firing in the air and using force to disperse the students. The students said, they were kept like a prisoner in the harsh winter and were denied even food, water and shelter.
He claims that border guards abused him after he refused to vote on a motion condemning the Russian attack at the UN. In another video clip, a Ukrainian guard is seen pushing an Indian girl away. This girl is falling at the feet of the soldier and pleading with him to let him cross the border. Some students say that the people of Ukraine have also become their opponents.
Students reached Poland border on foot overnight
Some students claim that many students have reached here by train, car, bus or on foot overnight. About 250 students reached checkpoints in Poland on Sunday. They have been lodged in a hotel in Poland. Many students are on their way to their college hostels in Kyiv and Lviv. But the students faced opposition from Ukrainian soldiers and civilians along the way. Students from the city of Ternopil are gathering at the Romanian border, including medical students from Haryana and Delhi. At a checkpoint in Ukraine, border guards even asked him to play a hunter game.
EU: More than 7 million people at risk of displacement
About 7 million people in Ukraine are at risk of displacement due to the Russian attack. Thousands of people are crossing the Ukrainian border and entering Poland. “We are witnessing the biggest humanitarian crisis on the European continent in many years,” Commissioner Yanez Lennarsin said after a meeting of EU interior ministers focused on refugees coming from Ukraine. Currently, the expected number of Ukrainians displaced is over 7 million, he said. He warned that he was only giving rough estimates from the United Nations because the fighting had stalled the accurate count.