Our Correspondent
Kohima, March 3 (EMN): The two medical students from Nagaland, who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, have now safely reached Hungary and Romania, and are waiting for flights to return to India.
Amenla Aier and Machi Yirakchang, who are studying medicine at different cities in Ukraine, had set out for neighbouring countries last week following the Russian military offensive on Ukraine on February 24.
Yirakchang told Eastern Mirror that he reached the Hungarian capital Budapest on Thursday and is currently staying at the Indian Embassy.
He said that he will be there till his flight to India is scheduled. Prior to that, he along with other Indian nationals stayed at a hostel in Uzhhorod, Ukraine for some days as they waited for their turn to cross over to Hungary.
Meanwhile, his elder brother Mirhu Terieng expressed relief over his brother having left the war-torn Ukraine. Yirakchang also assured his brother that he is “safe and secure by the grace of God”.
Terieng further said that he was told the evacuees at Budapest have not been informed about their forward journey even as around 2000 students were currently lodged at the Indian Embassy’s building in Hungary’s capital.
Meanwhile, Amenla Aier, who moved out from Poltava city in Ukraine on Sunday, was in Chișinău, Moldova before she left for Romania on Thursday to catch a flight to India.
Her father informed on Thursday that she was on her way to Romania, from where she would be flown to India.
Among the three medical students from Nagaland stranded in Ukraine, one landed in Delhi on Wednesday and is scheduled to reach the state today (March 4).