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New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Indian students, largely those studying medicine, hailing from Delhi to Gujarat who arrived here from Ukraine said they were happy to be back in their home country amid escalating tensions between Russia and the eastern European country.Most of the students PTI spoke to soon after their arrival on Tuesday night said they followed the advisory issued by the Indian Embassy in Kyiv.Anil Rapriya, 22, a fourth-year MBBS student at the Kharkiv National Medical University (KNMU) in Kharkiv city, just after landing at Delhi airport, said, "I am feeling happy to be back in my country"."There is nothing to panic there.
I have just moved to India as the Indian Embassy asked us to leave the country temporarily given the evolving situation in Ukraine," he told PTI on phone.His family lives in Nangloi in Delhi.Anil"s brother, Manish Rapriya was waiting anxiously at the T3 terminal"s arrival lounge."He had gone for his MBBS course in 2018.
I spoke to him on phone after he landed at the Delhi airport.
We are glad that he"s back, as the situation can change given the tensions between Russia and Ukraine," he said.Manish, 21, is pursuing his MA in political science from IGNOU.Ukraine and Russia have come close to a war in past few weeks.
Russia on Monday recognised the independence of two separatist regions in the eastern Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Indian embassy in Kyiv again asked Indian students to temporarily leave the country amid the rising tensions.A group of medical students arrived in a batch at the Delhi airport, taking Turkish Airlines from Kyiv to Istanbul and then to Qatar, and then from there to Delhi via Qatar Airways.Kirtan Kalathiya, Nirav Patel, Vinit Patel from Bhavnagar, and Krish Raj from Surendra Nagar in Gujarat were among the students who returned to Delhi from Ukraine."We all study at the Bukovinian State Medical University (BSMU) at Chernivtsi.