Months after they fled war, Indian students start making the journey back to Ukraine | Education News,The Indian Express
At the height of the war, the students had mostly left through Poland, Hungary, Slovakia or Romania, but now, as they return, they have been doing so via Moldova, a small country to the southwest of Ukraine which has been issuing e-visas.
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Months after they fled war, Indian students start making the journey back to Ukraine
At the height of the war, the students had mostly left through Poland, Hungary, Slovakia or Romania, but now, as they return, they have been doing so via Moldova, a small country to the southwest of Ukraine which has been issuing e-visas.
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Ludhiana | Updated: September 16, 2022 6:22:47 pm
Ivano-Frankivsk Medical University, one of the campuses where students are returning. (Express Photo)Seven months after the Russia-Ukraine war forced nearly 20,000 Indian students, most of them studying medicine in Ukraine, to return home to India, many are now making the journey back to their colleges in the war-torn European country.
The students, mostly those in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of their courses in Ukrainian medical universities, say they were left with little choice but to head back – given practical difficulties involved in taking a transfer to universities in other countries, and the need for hands-on training for final-year medical students.
At the height of the war, the students had mostly left through Poland, Hungary, Slovakia or Romania, but now, as they return, they have been doing so via Moldova, a small country to the southwest of Ukraine which has been issuing e-visas. Most of the students have been returning to Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia, Ukrainian cities in the west, which, they say, are “comparatively safer” and away from war zones.
With the airspace over Ukraine still closed, the students have been taking an indirect flight from Delhi, with an eight-hour layover at Istanbul, to Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, from where they take a bus to get across the border.
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