KOTTAYAM: Hundreds of Indian students who were seeking routes out of Ukraine were stranded near the Ukraine-Poland border on Saturday, said a Malayali firstyear student at the Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies in the city of Lviv.
19-year-old Fadl Nooruddin said he was among the hundreds waiting to get an entry to Poland. They had arrived near the border on Friday evening but were stopped at a checkpoint and were asked to go to another one, 40km away. "The temperature had dipped to minus 3-4 degrees Celsius in the early morning. We had been in touch with the Indian embassy in Poland. We hope we will be allowed entry into Poland when we reach the other checkpoint,” said Nooruddin, a native of Payyannur in Kannur.
It has been learned that student groups from Kerala in Poland are making arrangements to accommodate the students crossing the border. They have formed WhatsApp groups and Manu Vincent, one of the volunteers in Lublin, a city in Poland about 200km from the border, said he had arranged accommodation for those who contacted him. "The parents of several students have contacted me. If they reach the border we are ready to arrange vehicles for them,” said the Kannur native who is doing a course in Tourism and Hospitality in Lublin.
