News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Gaurav Pandey
Updated Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:29 PM IST
Summary
While trying to leave Kyiv, one of the students who reached the railway station as per the advisory told that we were not being allowed to board the train, some students tried and the guards pushed them.
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According to a report by news agency PTI, some students stranded in Kyiv have tried to reach a safe place by train. One of these students has told her story over the phone. According to the student, about 100 Indian students were at the train station in Kyiv. From here, these students divided themselves into groups of 10 to reach the city of Lviv. We had to plan the whole thing ourselves to be safe.
According to the report, 20-year-old student Aashna Pandit, one of these people, has told on the phone that when we were stuck there, we realized that no one is coming to help us and now we have to do this work ourselves. We divided ourselves into small groups and somehow managed to board the train. By this train he reached the western city of Ukraine where the war situation is less dire than in Kyiv.
A day earlier, these students had left the back door of their hostel at Taral Shevshenko National Medical University to reach Voxal station, the capital’s major train hub. In the advisory issued by the Indian mission, people were appealed to reach the western part of Ukraine by train. These students allege that the authorities could not provide any help to take us to a safe place.
Aashna and her younger brother Ansh, residents of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, said that in the advisory it was said that Ukrainian Railways is running special trains for evacuation, but the ground reality is different. Both siblings studied in the same college. Aashna said that we were not being allowed to board the train, when some students tried, the guards pushed them.
Aashna said that when we tried to board several trains, we divided ourselves into small groups and somehow managed to board the train to Lviv. The train was very crowded and we had to complete the nine-hour journey standing. After reaching here, the students decided that they would either go to Poland or try to go to the Hungarian border to leave Ukraine.