On Thursday morning, sirens were sounded across Ukraine while explosions were reported in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lutsk among many others. That afternoon, Jeevita Shindhe, who is studying medical science in Kyiv, assured her parents in Kalaburagi over a video-call that she was safe. She had booked her flight for March 8. With air traffic suspended, her parents, who head the biochemistry departments in Gulbarga and Tumakuru universities, are frantic. And they’re not the only ones.
Ms. Shinde is among the 59 students from Karnataka stranded in Ukraine, according to the data released by the government late on Thursday. All of them are medical students, and as many as 25 out of the 59 are from Bengaluru.
Across Karnataka, parents have made fervent appeals to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to get their children back home safely.
