The lifting of curfew in Kyiv and the subsequent announcement that students can take trains from the Ukrainian capital towards the western part of the country didn’t bring much cheer for scores of Indian students stranded there.

Khushboo Gajra, a student of Lviv National Medical College, told mid-day, “The ground reality is far from what media reports are trying to portray. We walked for 40 kilometres and then covered another 30 kilometres by bus to reach the Poland border. Just when we were 6-7 km from the border, we were informed that the curfew had been lifted in Kyiv and we could take trains from there.”