Many Darj dist residents return from Ukraine

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SNS, SILIGURI. 4 MARCH 2022: Around 10 Darjeeling district residents stranded in various cities in war-torn Ukraine have returned home ever since Russia launched an attack on the country on 24 February.

Families of Indian students in Ukraine are spending sleepless nights as they await their loved ones' safe evacuation. Most of the medical students have shared their ordeal and unprecedented experience they had witnessed like staying in bunkers for days with inadequate food, drinking water, missiles raining down on the cities, shelling, firing, explosions, with their families over the phone from the war-zone and upon their arrival.

The returnees have also expressed their concerns over the situation of their friends who still remain stuck in different war ravaged cities in the east European country. The students are generally being evacuated from bordering countries like Poland, Romania and Hungary.

According to Darjeeling district magistrate S Ponnambalam there were 18 residents of the district living in Ukraine.

"There were 18 residents of the district who had been in Ukraine, of whom eight have already returned. Some are on the way back home We are taking all the necessary steps." Mr Ponnambalam said.

Most of the residents, who are medical students, hail from Siliguri.

Meanwhile, a third year student of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University in Lviv, Arvind Chhetri, returned to his Kharibari home near Siliguri today.

On the other hand, the family members of Bishal Saha of Siliguri, another third year student at the Kharkiv National Medical University in eastern Ukraine safely landed in Delhi today. Another Hakim Para resident and second year medical student at Poltava State Medical University Pritam Malakar also arrived in Delhi on the same day.