Dnipro: 30 Odia students stranded in Ukrainian city fled to Budapest by private bus to Dnipro. Bhubaneswar News – Times of India

Very busy bus journey from BHUBANESWAR every minute Dnipro Hungarian capital by city in Ukraine budapesto At least 30 Odia students had escaped from the Ukraine war zone city in a private bus, which was filled with danger and panic.
The students somehow hired a private bus and had to travel continuously for 26 hours to reach Budapest, covering a distance of 1400 km. During the bus journey, they were apprehensive. But still they were in high morale and enjoyed great camaraderie among themselves.
“When we started with Dnipro after getting on the bus, we shouted Har Har Mahadev, Just to re-energize myself and seek the Lord ShivThe blessing of We had very little food (some dry stuff) and we managed with that. Dnipro had not yet been hit by the onslaught of thunder as Kharkiv was completely turned into a war zone. We were lucky that we ran. But, we are unaware of a lot of friends in Kharkiv. Maybe the mobile phone battery has run out. We have got the list of evacuation flight and we hope to reach home in the next two days,” said Satnosh Kumar Jena, a fifth year medical student. He hails from Balasore district.
He said Ukrainian troops searched him eight times during the visit, but he was cooperating.
Another student from Balangir, Chandan Kumar Das, who boarded the bus to Budapest, said he would have to pay Rs 15,000 per person for the 1400 km bus journey. “Once we reached Budapest, the Indian embassy made arrangements for our stay there. Some students from Dnipro city fled Romania were on the border and were kept in refugee camps there,” he said.
Ankit Das of Sundergarh, a medical student at Dnipro, said that many stranded students in Kharkiv were planning to come to Dnipro to flee Romania, which could have been an easier option, but could not happen due to the sudden bombing . “We found it convenient to go to Romania instead of Budapest because the private bus we hired was more comfortable to take us to Romania.”
A total of 450 Odia students have spoken to him through the control room and five of them have returned, said Padmanabh Behera, Joint Commissioner, Office of the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) here. “So far we have been able to contact and talk to the parents and relatives of 200 stranded Odia students from different districts,” he said.