Anurag Puniya (22), a fourth-year medical scholar at Kharkiv Nationwide Medical College in Ukraine, was to board a flight to India from Kyiv at 2 pm on Thursday. After a six-hour bus trip from Kharkiv to Kyiv, when he lastly reached the airport, he discovered that it was closed. The bus dropped him outdoors the airport, which is round 10 km away from the principle metropolis.
Not understanding what to do, Puniya, who hails from Delhi, took a Metro to the Indian Embassy within the metropolis with 40 others, who have been on the identical bus.
“A lot of my pals who reached the airport early morning for his or her flight have been requested to go away and the airport was closed off. Now individuals are taking a bus, Metro, or strolling again to town. The official recommendation by the embassy right this moment morning was to return again to the locations we got here from. However there was a bomb blast in Kharkiv and my pals who’re nonetheless caught on the college inform me that the locals are additionally transferring to the Western elements of the nation and there’s a enormous jam on the freeway. How can we return?”
“A lot of my pals who reached the airport early morning for his or her flight have been requested to go away and the airport was closed off,” says a fourth-year medical scholar in Ukraine, who was to board a flight to India from Kyiv.@AnonnaDutt writes: https://t.co/BKpCteVO1u pic.twitter.com/kvKqI4DArD
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As the gang of scholars stored getting greater, they have been knowledgeable by officers from the embassy at 01:30 IST that they’re making an attempt to rearrange for lodging at a faculty close by. They have been requested to put in writing their names and the place they got here from on a bit of paper.
Puniya mentioned that when the Indian Embassy requested all the scholars to go away Ukraine a number of days in the past, all flights to India have been booked out. “There was a rush of reserving, it was inconceivable to get a seat on a flight to India simply earlier than March 6. I lastly managed to get this seat and now the flight is cancelled. Again house, my household is worried and confused.”
Puniya mentioned he paid Rs 58,000 for a spherical journey flight to India. “The one-way ticket was for 50,000, so I simply booked the spherical journey for 58,000. Now, the tickets value over a lakh,” he mentioned. That is virtually double the price of travelling from India to Ukraine.
Speaking about his pals nonetheless on the College, he mentioned, “The college has suggested us to enter the Metro stations or any underground place within the campus when the siren rings. The Metros are already full; the locals have boarded with their baggage.” Whereas talking to The Indian Specific over the telephone, he mentioned there are fighter jets flying above his location too.