KOCHI: Hundreds of Malayali students who managed to reach the Ukraine border at Shehyni-Medyka were stranded in the freezing cold for hours on Saturday at a checkpoint unable to cross over to Poland.
Students said that they reached the border by Friday morning but were told at the checkpoint that they can cross only by vehicles. “Shehyni is around 80km from Lviv. We had to walk for around 20km to reach here. We went to a shelter, but they told us only women are admitted. We have been staying out in the cold for nearly 20 hours now. Other shelters are 10km away from here,” said Mohammed Jiad, a Kalamassery native and veterinary science student at Lviv University in Ukraine.
