Our Correspondent
Kohima, Feb. 28 (EMN): Two medical students from Nagaland stranded in Ukraine were said to be out of the war zone, according to updates received on Monday.
The students, who were studying at different cities in the war-hit Ukraine, had set out for the neighbouring countries to catch flight for India.
Providing more information about his current situation, Machi Yirakchang told Eastern Mirror on Monday that he was still in Ukraine but out of the war zone. He said that the place he is currently in is just a few kilometre away from the Hungary border.
He informed that Indian nationals, who wish to travel to India via Hungary, are currently taking shelter at a hostel there. He said they would be taken to Hungary in a day or two and evacuated via Budapest airport to India.
As reported earlier, Yirackchang from Poilwa village in Peren district, is currently pursuing a medical course at I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University in Ukraine’s Ternopil city.
Due to the Russian military offensive, he along with other Indian nationals tried to leave Ukraine, initially to Poland before changing the route to Slovakia, only to arrive in a city closer to Hungary.
Meanwhile, another medical student Lanu Amenla Aier, who moved out from Ukraine’s Odesa city on Sunday along with her friends, reached Moldova capital Chisinău on Monday morning.
She told this newspaper that she is currently put up at a military camp and is waiting for the Indian Embassy to provide them further instructions.
Hailing from Kuda village in Dimapur, Amenla is an MBBS student at Odesa National Medical University, Odesa in Ukraine.
The government of Nagaland had on Sunday issued helpline numbers for those stranded in the war-torn country.
Medical student from Nagaland stranded in Ukraine
Another student from Nagaland stranded in war-torn Ukraine