New Delhi: As the sixth flight carrying 240 stranded Indian nationals has recently departed from Hungary’s Budapest for Delhi under Operation Ganga, thousands of students are still stuck in various places in war-torn Ukraine.
Amidst the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Indian Government’s efforts to evacuate Indian nationals out of Ukraine via Romania, Hungry, and Slovakia, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has shared an SOS video of a young Indian student who can be seen pleading the Indian authorities to rescue them.
In the video, the girl introduces herself to be Garima Mishra, who hails from Lucknow in Uttarpradesh, saying, “We are surrounded from all eyes…no one is helping and I don’t know if we will get any help”.
“Where we are staying, people come, they create a disturbance and try to come in, we can’t understand what is happening”.
“We were told that Russian soldiers stopped some of our friends who had gone by bus to the border. They fired at the students and jut picked up the girls. We don’t know what happened to the boys,” said Garima.
Watch the viral video here:
…@narendramodi जी, @DrSJaishankar जी यूक्रेन से आ रहे भारतीय छात्र-छात्राओं के वीडियो मन को बहुत ही ज्यादा व्यथित करने वाले हैं। इन बच्चों को भारत वापस लाने के लिए जो कुछ भी बन पड़ता है , भगवान के लिए, वह करिए। पूरा देश इन छात्र-छात्राओं और इनके परिवारों के साथ है।…1/2 pic.twitter.com/PfmBw8McLY
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) February 27, 2022
She breaks into tears while saying, “We used to see this in movies. We thought we would be saved…but now it doesn’t seem like it…Please send someone by air to help us. Send the Indian army, otherwise, we don’t think we will be able to go from here…We are not safe at this place”.
She further pleads the Indian authorities with folded hands, “Please, please help us. Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! Whoever is watching, please share this video”.
Meanwhile, the Indian embassy in Ukraine informed earlier today that the weekend curfew has been lifted in Kyiv, and that the Ukraine Railways is putting special trains for evacuations and advised all students to move to the railway station and stay in the western parts of the country wherein the access to basic amenities is said to be better.
