We can’t abandon our personal people: Rahul Gandhi on Indian college students stranded in Ukraine

A quantity of Indian college students attempting to get away war-ridden Ukraine had been stopped, harassed, and crushed at the country’s border with Poland indicate a number of movies circulated on social media. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, sharing one such video, appealed to the government to share their evacuation graph with these stranded.

“My coronary heart goes out to the Indian students struggling such violence and their family looking at these videos. No guardian must go via this. GOI have to urgently share the targeted evacuation graph with these stranded as nicely as their families. We can’t abandon our personal people,” he tweeted.

In the video shared via Gandhi, guards in uniforms can be viewed manhandling a few students, including girls, in the border area, where sounds of gun shots can additionally be heard. The college students are pinned to the ground and can be heard screaming.

In another video whose veracity may want to not be independently verified, a pupil alleges that the Ukrainian border guards have been hindering the exit of Indian students into Poland, and had been accusing India of no longer helping Ukraine.

“Indian students are being tortured. They are not permitting us to pass over to Poland. Even ladies students are being harassed. They are being pulled by way of their hair and hit with rods. Some women college students have suffered fractures and injuries,” an Indian student in Ukraine advised media.

An Air India flight had conveyed 219 college students stranded in Ukraine to Mumbai on Saturday. Another flight from Bucharest had carried 250 Indian nationals, along with many students, to Delhi on Sunday. Five such flights have operated so far. Further evacuation effort are underway, underneath Operation Ganga through the government of India.

Indian college students in Ukraine have been requested to journey to the borders of the neighbouring Poland, Romania, and Hungary in order for evacuation.

In a welcome gesture, Poland is allowing Indian students who escape from Russian aggression in Ukraine to enter Poland except any visa, Ambassador of Poland to India Adam Burakowski announced.

Meanwhile, conflict is underway in Ukraine the place Russian troops proceed their navy invasion of the resisting country. The delegations of the two countries are scheduled to meet for talks on Monday.