Indians start arriving from crisis-hit Ukraine

Indian students take a selfie on their arrival from Ukraine, at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday night. Pic/PTI

Kirtan Kalathiya, a medical university student in Ukraine, was seen chatting in Gujarati and laughing with four of his friends from his native state soon after they reached Delhi airport following a long journey from Kyiv.

Even as they were shooting the breeze close to midnight on Tuesday, standing near a taxi bay, one of them kept looking at the Instagram page of Kyiv Post on his mobile phone to get the latest update on the situation in Ukraine amid escalating tensions between Russia and the eastern European country.

From Kharkiv to Chernivtsi, Indians students and professionals, living in different parts of Ukraine, have started at the Delhi international airport.

Most of the students said they had followed the advisory issued by the Indian Embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

"We were a bit tense, when we boarded our flight from Kyiv, but felt relaxed after reaching India," said Priyansh Hudda from Surendranagar district of Gujarat. He is a first year MBBS student at the Bukovinian State Medical University (BSMU) in Chernivtsi, a town in western Ukraine known for its grand architectural buildings.

"We came safely from Ukraine, but at airport, we got surrounded by mediapersons soon as we came out of the exit gate. That added to our anxiety, joked Kalathiya.

On Tuesday, the Indian embassy in Kyiv again asked Indian students to temporarily leave the country amid the rising tensions.

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