Jai Hind! Please Help! Indian Student Pleads For Help In A Video From Ukraine

Indian students stuck in Ukraine have been constantly sharing videos for help from the embassy to get out of the war-torn land. Recently, a similar cry for help has gone viral on the Internet. Even the Congress Chief for Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi shared the video on her social media feed.

The military conflict that started on Thursday has kept the world glued to their screens. Distressing visuals from Ukraine have been coming in with people fleeing or waving goodbyes to their loved ones to join the Ukrainian force against Russia.

In the past few hours, videos of troubled Indian students and civilians stuck there has surfaced wherein they are alleging safety troubles, lack of help from the embassy and constant fear of what will happen next.

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Indian Students Stuck In Ukraine

Recently, a video featuring a girl named Garima Mishra has gone viral. In the video, that is being widely shared on the Internet, Mishra says that she is from Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. Mishra goes on to allege that no one is responding to her cry for help. She said, "We are surrounded from all sides...no one is helping and I don't know if we will get any help."

Mishra also alleged that at the place where they are staying, a few people came in and created a disturbance. Moreover, she said that they do not have any idea of what is going on.

For the past few days, videos and messages of Indian students being harassed while trying to leave Ukraine have been reported. Thousands of them have been trying to get to Ukraine's border with Romania, Hungary and Poland by buses and from there they are being flown back home to India by Air India flights.

But Mishra, in the video, accused Russians of grave human rights violations. She alleges, "We were told that Russian soldiers stopped some of our friends who had gone by bus to the border. They fired at the students and just picked up the girls. We don't know what happened to the boys."

Towards the end of the video, she said with teary eyes and hands folded to all the people watching it, "We used to see this in movies. We thought we would be saved...but now it doesn't seem like it. Please send someone by air to help us. Send the Indian army, otherwise, we don't think we will be able to go from here...We are not safe at this place."

She concludes the video by saying, "Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! Whoever is watching please share this video." It was shared by Gandhi who in the caption tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar. She wrote, "...For God's sake, do whatever it takes to bring these children back to India. The whole nation is with these children and their families."

Reportedly some 18,000 students are studying in Ukraine and many have been sharing pictures and videos from underground bunkers on social media.

(Feature Image Credit: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra)