Vidhi Dama, who was stuck in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, told CNN that Ukrainians were refusing to let Indian students board trains out of the city, which was being bombed and fired at. As Russian troops launched an offensive on Kyiv on Tuesday, Indian officials assisted them in moving west.

After Russian military arrived near Kyiv on Tuesday morning, the Indian government issued an alert advising all Indian students to leave the city. Dama, a Thane resident who studied medicine in Ukraine, said she and her friends were subjected to heinous behaviour at the railway station and shared videos and images with mid-day.

"Students in Kyiv and Kharkiv are also in danger, and the Indian Embassy is attempting to relocate us to safer parts of the nation via rail and car." These two cities are being bombed and fired upon. Dama continued, "Many kids have been hiding in the bunkers and have ran out of food."

She and her companions decided to leave Kyiv once the curfew was lifted and special trains for Indian students were established to transport them to secure locations, she claimed. "Ukrainians were disrespectful to us at the station." They refused to let us board the train. We were all crying and pleading, but they had no humanity," Dama continued.

Ritankshi Patel, a resident of Vasai, has been holed up in a bunker in Kyiv with 40-50 Indian students. She had attempted to fly out of Kyiv on Thursday but had been unable to do so. "I stayed with my pals in the Kyiv bunker after I couldn't get on a flight." My companions became ill as a result of suffocation in the bunker, and there was little food. The majority of my buddies began vomiting and developed headaches and a fever. We were ordered to board a train out of Kyiv, so several of us walked 4 kilometres to the Chernivtsi train station."

"When we arrived at the station, no Ukrainian permitted us to board the train, and they were also hostile to us." We intended to travel to Hungary's border. "After missing five out of six trains, we were able to board one," Patel continued. Some pupils remain in the bunker, she claims, and the "Indian government should assist them in escaping" the war-torn country.