19-year-old Nimisha Lumba, an Indian student trapped at Vokzal railway station in Kharkiv, says she is terrified of the situation there (station) and does not know what is going to happen to her.
“We are helpless here, we are stuck at the station for hours and we do not know what is going to happen to us. We don’t even know if there is anyone to help us,” she told News18.
Panicked by her situation, Nimisha’s mother, who is in India, is begging for help for her daughter.
“Sitting in India, I don’t know what to do for my daughter’s safety. But, I am doing anything to help him. I posted videos of the station on Twitter as well,” she told New 18.
Speaking to News18, another Indian student from Hyderabad, K Rohit, who is studying medicine at Ivano Frankivash National Medical University in Ukraine, said, “The condition of Indian students in particular is really bad here. While some officials from other countries are there to help with the evacuation process, there is none for the Indians.”
Nimisha is not alone in this situation, like her, thousands of others are currently stranded at Kharkiv’s Voxal railway station. Several others also took to social media to highlight the problem and urged the Indian government to evacuate them.
@MEAIndia, @Narendra Modi ,@amitshah,@ndtv,@Rajnath Singh,@thetribunechd,@Till date @ HardeepSinghpuri,@harshvshringla are at the Indian railway station in Kharkiv, but are not being allowed to board the trains and are either being killed or intimidated by the Ukranian police by firing. Please help pic.twitter.com/76GCPL35w8— Aanchal Sharma (@AnchalSharma232) 2 March 2022
Another said,
@DrSJaishankar My daughter is stranded at Pivdenni Voxal railway station along with 1000 other Indian students. Ukrainian soldiers have threatened to shoot if they try to board the train. A missile detonated near the station by a Russian fighter. Her local number is +380 50 733 3686- sonia lumba (@sonialumba) 2 March 2022
Earlier, the Indian government had appointed four Union ministers – Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and VK Singh – as India’s special envoys to Ukraine’s neighboring countries. While Scindia will oversee the evacuation efforts from Romania and Moldova, Rijiju will travel to Slovakia. Puri will go to Hungary, while Singh will go to Poland to manage the evacuation.
In a press briefing on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that 26 flights have been scheduled over the next three days to bring back the stranded citizens from Ukraine. He also said that 12,000 Indian nationals have already left Ukraine, which is about 60% of the Indians present in the conflict-torn nation.
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