For Priyanka Mallesh of Mysuru, a second year MBBS student of Bukovinian State Medical University in Western Ukraine, the trip back home could not have been more timely.
She reached Mysuru at 3 a.m. on Wednesday and within 24 hours, the main airport at Kiev from where international flights fly out of Ukraine, was shut down and airspace closed for civil aviation following the Russian invasion on Thursday.
‘’When we left Ukraine the situation did not seem as alarming but the television news reports this morning came as a shock,” said Ms. Priyanka, who is one of the thousands of Indians who study in BSMU in Chernivtsi.
