No parent should go through this: Rahul Gandhi on Indian students stranded in Ukraine

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked the government to urgently share its evacuation plan with those stranded in Ukraine and their families as he shared a video of some students being harassed by the military there.

"My heart goes out to the Indian students suffering such violence and their family watching these videos. No parent should go through this," he said on Twitter while sharing the video of some students.

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"The GOI must urgently share the detailed evacuation plan with those stranded as well as their families. We can't abandon our own people," Gandhi also said.

Gandhi and the Congress party have been criticising the government for not evacuating Indian students in time from Ukraine and have called for urgent steps to evacuate them, after Russia attacked Ukraine.

My heart goes out to the Indian students suffering such violence and their family watching these videos. No parent should go through this.

GOI must urgently share the detailed evacuation plan with those stranded as well as their families.

We can’t abandon our own people. pic.twitter.com/MVzOPWIm8D

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 28, 2022

A number of Congress leaders have shared videos of Indian students in Ukraine highlighting their plight and making appeals to the Indian government to evacuate them soon.

"For the last three days, we have been hearing sounds of heavy bombing and shelling. The stored water has been exhausted and food is also getting over. We are going through difficult times," Akhangsha Bhowmik, a fourth-year medical student in Ukraine's V N Karazin Kharkiv National University told PTI over a WhatsApp call from Kiev.

Several Indian students in Ukraine trudged 35km in freezing temperature to reach the border with Poland hoping for an escape from the ravaging war, but are now stuck there with little or no food and shelter. Sleeping in parks in temperature below minus 4 degrees, their food stocks dwindling and their phone batteries dying, the students who reached the border point on Saturday pleaded for help to put an end to their ordeal and the uncertainty over their evacuation.

(With inputs from PTI)