Sitting in his room made of bamboo thatched, Kaushik Dey is sure that he will return to Ukraine later this year. He also tells News18 that Ukraine will rebuild and things will return to normal despite the destruction.
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Kaushik Dey, a resident of Brahmanpara, Udaipur in Gomti district, has set up his broadband connection. He is a medical student at VN Karzin Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, who was subjected to air raids in the early stages of Russia’s so-called ‘military operation in Ukraine’.
They spent two nights at the Vokazal metro station which was turned into a bunker overnight. He left Kharkiv on 26 February and on the day he was leaving there were no signs of increasing hostilities but he heard the sound of air strikes. Based on the advisory issued by the Indian Embassy in Kyiv, Kaushik Dey along with his three roommates left for Lviv.
“We took a train to Lviv with limited food supply. We faced water shortage in Kharkiv. We spoke to a taxi driver in Lviv who took around Rs 12,000 from all four of us. From there we went to the Poland border where Indian officials met us and we were taken there. There were no taxis and how much did they charge us,” said Kaushik. His roommates who shared an apartment with him were from Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. Kaushik’s belongings are still in Naukova in Kharkiv. “I can’t retrieve them and I have no hope that I will find them,” he says.
“Upon reaching the Polish border, I was relieved to see my other friends. We were checked at posts operated by Ukrainian troops. I didn’t panic and wasn’t worried. Hostilities began only a day or two later. The strikes were reserved for rural areas instead of the main Kharkiv city,” he said while talking to News18.
However, Kaushik’s parents are worried. His uncle Ganesh Dey asked where he would study. “Kharkiv has turned into rubble. Students need buildings to study. I was afraid that Russia might drop the vacuum bomb. The students no longer have buildings to study,” said Ganesh Dey, his father. Kartik Dey is relieved, but worries whether his son will be able to pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor.
Kaushik says he is confident that peace will return and his university administration is hopeful that they will be able to resume classes as normal by the end of the year.
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