The airport in Delhi was filled with hugs, smiles, and tears on Wednesday, when more flights from Ukraine’s neighboring countries, including Romania and Hungary and the first flights from Poland, arrived to help people flee the country.
There are now 3,352 Indians who have come back home through evacuation flights as of Wednesday evening, the Ministry of External Affairs says.
This number is part of the nearly 17,000 Indian nationals who have left Ukraine since the first safety warnings.
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They waited for Ayushi Mathur, who was 20 and had been stuck in Poland for three days.
As a student at Lviv Medical University in Western Ukraine, she is in her third year of MBBS.
They came from her teenage cousins to little kids to show their love for their sister with garlands and the country’s flag.
That’s what her uncle said “She is the only sister among seven brothers. They said that they also wanted to go and see their sister. They were waiting desperately for her to come back.”
“There was a lot of suffocation and a lot of people in the crowds. In Poland, I was stuck for three days before I could leave. In Poland, the Indian Embassy helped. The embassy had the best of everything as far as hotels and food. “It was Ayushi Mathur who told what she thought.
Because their kids are safe, parents also worry about what the future holds for them.
Devki Mathur, Ayushi’s mother, said, “I don’t know what to say.” “For us, the most important thing was that she came home safe. When we think about her in the future, of course, we’ll have to think about her work. When the violence started, she was studying for her exams. She’s in her third year of MBBS. Even if the university will allow online education or not, we don’t know for sure at this point. Before we sent her, we had thought about all of the possibilities. As soon as you finish school, you can work as a doctor in the military when you come back. Now, I don’t know what will happen.”
Ministers like Smriti Irani, Jitendra Singh, and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat welcomed students who came to Delhi on Wednesday and other students from around the country.
The government also met with students at the Bucharest airport in Romania. General VK Singh gave them food and water at the Poland border.
“I want you all to know and tell your friends as well that Modi Ji has said that every student will be brought back to India safely,” Mr. Scindia told the students in video clips of their conversation.
Wednesday, an Indian Air Force plane flew to Romania with humanitarian aid and will bring back students who have been there for a long time.
One more C-17 plane will bring the students from Rzeszow, Poland, back to the United States.
