Year later, medical students back from Ukraine plan move to other countries

Small groups of students have also gone back to Ukraine to colleges on the country's western side

Until a year ago, Nilofer D'Souza (name changed on request) was studying medicine at the Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine. And then Russia invaded. The aspiring doctor was among the thousands of Indian students who fled the war-torn country and returned home. The year has since gone by in a haze of uncertainty.

The 21-year-old, Ahmedabad-based fourth-year undergraduate medical student is now looking to get transferred to a university in Georgia. It’s not going to be easy, though. Just the tuition fee will cost her an additional Rs 2-4 lakh and she’ll have to shell out at least