Dimapur, March 6 (MExN): After an uneasy period of five days since she crossed over the border from the city of Odessa in Ukraine to Moldova, Amen Aier, a medical student has safely made it back to Dimapur on March 5.
On Sunday, she informed The Morung Express that a bus had been arranged for them to travel to Romania where she boarded a plane to Delhi.
Amen is among three of the medical students from Nagaland who were stranded in Ukraine when the Russian invasion broke out on February 24.
She is a medical student at the Odessa National Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine.
As the Russian invasion began, thousands of Indian students like herself became caught in the conflict and were forced to either shelter within parts of country or flee to other neighboring countries entirely.
Previously, she had recounted to this newspaper on how she had to flee from Odessa to neighboring Moldova in the South West part of Ukraine through a privately arranged bus.
Along with 62 other students, they covered an approximate distance of 179 km by road. They then reached that country’s capital Chisinau, where she and the other refugees stayed at a military camp.
Amen had been waiting for further instructions from the Indian embassy prior to her arrival back home. “It was really tiring to be honest. But finally I’m home so really thankful,” she shared.
Meanwhile, India has brought back "over 15,920" of its nationals in 76 flights under evacuation mission 'Operation Ganga' that was launched following Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, PTI news agency reported on Sunday, quoting officials.
The Indian embassy in Hungary suggested that the evacuation mission from the country is nearing completion as it is beginning the last leg of flights under the operation, it added.
India has been bringing back its nationals from Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova after they crossed over to these countries from Ukraine through land border transit points.
The first flight had returned with the stranded Indians on February 26 from Bucharest and according to the officials, around 2,500 Indians were evacuated on 13 flights in the last 24 hours, the report added.
