'Students assaulted': Ukraine puts stranded Indians in hostage-like situation to 'blackmail' India; Watch Video

In an attempt to blackmail India, Ukraine authorities have sorted to tyranny as they are reportedly not letting the stranded Indian students flee their country at a time of war.

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28 Feb 2022, 4:39 am

'Desperate time requires desperate measures' the saying seems true in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. In an attempt to blackmail India, Ukraine authorities have sorted to tyranny as they are reportedly not letting the stranded Indian students flee their country at a time of war. In multiple videos uploaded on social media by the stranded Indian students, Ukraine security officials can be seen assaulting and blocking the Indians who had reached the Poland border in order to be evacuated from the war-hit Ukraine.

Moreover, a Times of India report quoted a family member of the Indian students stranded in Ukraine at the Poland border. As per the report, the Ukraine immigration officials have clearly refused to help stranded Indians as the government of India has not come to the rescue of the war-hit nation. The stranded Indian students were even blocked to enter Poland by the Ukrainian security officials.

As per the report, the Ukrainian immigration officials said, "When your government has not cooperated with us, why should we cooperate with you." The passport and travel documents of many students have been destroyed or lost during the chaos. For the same many videos have been going viral on Twitter. The viral video shows the ground reality, and how Ukrainian authorities have sorted to such a cowardly act when their nation is affected by Russian transgression.

Ukrainian security kicks and assaults Indian students trying to leave from Poland border:

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Why Ukraine is 'blackmailing' India?

Notably, India has launched Operation Ganga to evacuate stranded Indians in Ukraine. The entire cost of the evacuation will be borne by the Indian government. For the evacuation, the Government of India has positioned teams of officials at the Zahony border post in Hungary, Krakowiec as well as the Shehyni-Medyka land border points in Poland, Vysne Nemecke in the Slovak Republic, and the Suceava transit point in Romania to coordinate the exit of Indian nationals from Ukraine. Till now, 450 students have been evacuated, however, there are thousands who are still stranded in Ukraine.

It is pertinent to mention here that Ukraine's cowardly act comes after India yet again abstained from voting on the resolution to refer the Russia-Ukraine war matter to an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Apart from India, UAE and China have too abstained to pass the resolution. Notably, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephonic conversation with PM Modi before the resolution against Russia was re-introduced in UNSC. Zelenskyy had asked PM Modi for India's support at the UNSC.

After India and other nations abstained from voting, Ukraine's ambassador to UN Sergiy Kyslytsya issued a diplomatic threat against them. Without naming India, the UAE, or China, the three abstaining countries, the Ukrainian Ambassador at UNSC said, "It is exactly the safety of your nationals in Ukraine that you should be the first to vote to stop the war to save your nationals in Ukraine, and not to think that you should vote or not vote."

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