“We would hear shelling sounds in the middle of the night and run to the bunker for safety. It was a nightmare,” Venkatesan Sivaprasad, a medical student from Sumy, who reached Chennai on Saturday in the last of the evacuation flights, said.
Chief Minister M. K. Stalin received nine students, including Sivaprasad from Tamil Nadu, who reached Delhi from Ukraine and subsequently were brought to Chennai. They came along with the government delegation and IAS officers who were in New Delhi for coordinating the evacuation process.
“As we watched students from the other cities getting evacuated, we were worried whether or not we would make it home alive,” Sivaprasad added.
