Pollachi MP K. Shanmugasundaram has urged Union Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar to take immediate steps to bring back 24 students who are stuck in Lviv in the war-torn Ukraine. The students hail from from Pollachi, other parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
According to the MP, he has been informed that there was a miscommunication by the Indian officials in Poland due to which a group of students was sent back just 3 km from the Polish border. They were forced to stay out in the cold, he said in the letter to Mr. Jaishankar.
Mr. Shamugasundarm said the students were also prepared to return via Hungary.
The MP said he was coordinating with the Ministry of External Affairs for the safe return of the students.
Embassy calls students to nearest railway station
Meanwhile, a student form Coimbatore who is stuck in Kyiv told The Hindu on Monday morning that she and many other Indian students were asked by the Indian Embassy to come to the nearest railway station to cross the border.
The Embassy tweeted at 11:58 a.m. IST that “Weekend curfew lifted in Kyiv. All students are advised to make their way to the railway station for onward journey to the western parts. Ukraine Railways is putting special trains for evacuations”.
The student said that she and many others had to return to their hostel after they were told by the Ukrainian authorities that no special trains were arranged. They waited at the station nearly two hours.
According to her, the war situation was getting worse and the students who were staying in bunkers had not slept properly for the past three nights.
Following the lifting of the curfew, there was heavy traffic in Kyiv on Monday, she said.
