An estimated 18,000 Indians were in Ukraine when Russia’s invasion began. Most were students, and more specifically, medical students. Though many are now back to the safety of their homes, the unprecedented situation has cast a shadow on their present and future.
Pooja Yadav was in her first year in a Ukranian university when she was forced to return. “We are looking for some solution. We’ll wait to see what the Government says. As I got adapted to the study method to foreign universities, I would like to continue studying in one. If going back does not work out, we’ll have to look for something here. But the fees to study here is too high. If something is worked out for middle class families like mine, then studying here will also be good,” she said.
Though Poland has shown openness to accommodate Indian students there, she said she knows little about universities there. “All I know is that I don’t want to give up on medicine. I don’t think anyone would,” she added firmly.
