The students’ journey took many days of travel by bus, train and plane throughout Ukraine and across borders.
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As Shivangi Shibu watched her fellow students goof off, pushing each other in line at an airport in Poland, she let out a carefree laugh for what felt like the first time in days. “Finally, we were going home,” Shibu, 25, told USA TODAY after she returned home to Patna, India, this weekend. “You could feel the excitement. It felt like a miracle.”
Shibu and hundreds of Sumy State University students living in the school's six hostels had been trapped in a northeastern Ukrainian city for about two weeks with little food and water after Russia launched its invasion.
The international students — Shibu estimates about 700 students from India, 400 from Nigeria and others from countries including Turkey and South Africa — eventually found their way home over the course of last week and weekend after many days of travel by bus, train and plane throughout Ukraine and across borders.
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Was it really about their ethnicity ? Wasn’t it women & children first ? My heart breaks for all in Ukraine, including these international students however, where were their own country’s embassy representatives ? In amongst this devastating & horrific chaos, Ukraine had to assist their own citizens first (as do ALL countries in their own evacuation action plans for their own citizens scattered around the globe) … where were India’s Embassy Reps ? Why were they NOT communicating with their own citizens studying abroad ? This goes for all Countries with international students & citizens in Ukraine … India & the other countries who voted ‘a no vote’ to assist Ukraine & NATO allies also left their own citizens in Ukraine for dead without an evacuation plan ? Why aren’t these students angry at their OWN country’s inactions to communicate with Ukraine’s Local government & embassy officials to get them out ?
Of course the Ukrainian citizens should have first chance to leave.
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