Anurag Puniya (22), a fourth-year clinical understudy at Kharkiv National Medical University in Ukraine, was to load onto a trip to India from Kyiv at 2 pm on Thursday. Following a six-hour transport ride from Kharkiv to Kyiv, when he at last arrived at the air terminal, he observed that it was shut. The transport dropped him outside the air terminal, which is around 10 km away from the principle city.
Not knowing what to do, Puniya, who hails from Delhi, took a Metro to the Indian Embassy in the city with 40 others, who were on a similar transport.
“A considerable lot of my companions who arrived at the air terminal early morning for their flight were approached to leave and the air terminal was shut off. Presently individuals are taking a transport, Metro, or strolling back to the city. The authority counsel by the consulate today morning was to get once again to the spots we came from. In any case, there was a bomb impact in Kharkiv and my companions who are as yet stuck at the college let me know that local people are likewise moving toward the Western pieces of the nation and there is an enormous jam on the parkway. How might we return?”
As the horde of understudies continued to get greater, they were educated by authorities from the government office at 01:30 IST that they are attempting to sort out for convenience at a school close by. They were approached to compose their names and where they came from on a piece of paper.
Puniya said that when the Indian Embassy requested that every one of the understudies leave Ukraine a couple of days prior, all trips to India were reserved out. “There was a surge of booking, it was difficult to get a seat on a trip to India effectively before March 6. I at long last figured out how to get this seat and presently the flight is dropped. Back home, my family is concerned and befuddled.”
Puniya said he paid Rs 58,000 for a full circle trip to India. “The one-way ticket was for 50,000, so I just reserved the full circle for 58,000. Presently, the tickets cost over a lakh,” he said. This is practically twofold the expense of heading out from India to Ukraine.
Discussing his companions still at the University, he said, “The college has encouraged us to go into the Metro stations or any underground spot in the grounds when the alarm rings. The Metros are now full; local people have loaded up with their gear.” While addressing The Indian Express via telephone, he said there are warrior jets hovering over his area as well.
