KOTTAYAM: “Please arrange evacuation flights as early as possible. The Indian government should act fast to save our lives,” urged Hena Sonny Kalathil, a Kottayam native, who is now a medical student in Kyiv in Ukraine, which is being invaded by Russia.
Like Hena, a third-year student of the Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, around 2,000 medical students from Kerala and many from across India studying in universities in Kyiv are either stuck in hostel rooms, airports or in shelters. “We have been trying to book flights for the past two weeks but we couldn’t due to the high demand and excess fares,” Hena said.
