Dnipro, which has been a popular city among medical students from India, has turned out to be one of the major recipients of the returnees who are not just having to catch up with their academics but also witness a city engulfed in pitch darkness.
Indian students who were supposed to be on their way to Ukraine in the next few days have put brakes on their plans as the Indian Embassy in Kyiv advised nationals to avoid travelling to the war-hit nation over deteriorating security situation .
The Academic Mobility Programme which allows Indian students, who have returned from war torn Ukraine, to take admissions in other countries pose concerns for the ones who are in their final few years of MBBS studies.
Students and parents are also looking forward to NMC’s decision on accommodating Indian students in India, the deadline for which is on June 29th as mandated by the Supreme Court.
Russian universities, which have some 16,000 Indian students, reportedly made efforts to reach out to Indian students who returned from Ukraine, while Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in an interview said that the country is willing to admit the students into their medical institutions when they are ready.