Though the majority of Indian students from Kharkiv, Ukraine, have made it to either Hungary or Slovakia, through Lviv, they are worried that their friends who moved to Pisochyn, besides those in Sumy, are stuck. there
Hundreds of students from the border city braved odds such as hostile Ukrainian soldiers to get out of the warzone a week after the battle began and they were forced to take shelter in bunkers and underground train stations.
“We were pushed aside and sometimes beaten up when we tried to board the train from Kharkiv. That we were much ahead in the queue did not matter. We waited for a whole day at the railway station hungry and cold before we could board a train to Lviv,” says Ansalna Azeez, a student of Kharkiv National Medical University hailing from Idukki. She was part of a large group that reached Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday.
