Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening met the students at Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport in Varanasi who returned from war torn Ukraine. He interacted with the students and listen their harrowing experiences and reassuring them that rest of their friends still stranded in Ukraine would be brought back soon.

Though he is very busy schedule of election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, after addressing two poll rallies in Jaunpur and Chandauli, he interacted with a group of students returned to various parts of the State from war torn Ukraine. I can understand the mental state you have gone through at such a young age. Your agony is beyond words and imagination, he said with the students.

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Operation Ganga the evacuation is on under adverse conditions. But be rest assured that all Indians will be brought to the country safely, Modi said. Students including Abhishek Kesari, who had been studying at Ivano University Frankis, Divya Srivastav, who was studying at Ternopil Medical University, Tausifa Naaz, who was pursuing MBBS-I at Uzhhorod University said that PM listened to them and empathized with them.  He assured us that efforts to bring back rest of the India students would be intensified, said the students extending their gratitude to the PM and Government of India for their safe evacuation.

Besides, Neha Patel, Saurabh Kumar Verma, Unnati Patel, Shah Faizal, Rahul Singh of Varanasi, Abhishek Yadav and Himanshu Gupta of Jaunpur, Shweta Dubey of Ghazipur, Sandhya Singh of Pratapgarh, Vishal Kumar Maurya, Ruchi Pandey and Ritik Diwakar of Prayagraj, were among those who interacted with the PM.

The students also shared how they experienced the power of Tricolor. As we were getting special treatment by Ukrainian forces, the students from Pakistan, Turkey, Nigeria and many other countries also mounted Indian flag on their buses so that they could reach borders of Poland, Hungary, Romania and others to stay safe till any help come for them, they said.