KT Exclusive: Students from Dubai stranded in Ukraine as flights suspended

A few understudies, who were to travel to Dubai, are abandoned in Ukraine as Russian powers sent off an assault against the East European country.

Ukraine is a well known advanced education objective for understudies from the UAE, particularly those chasing after clinical investigations.

One understudy, 21-year-old Nazeel Nazar, was to travel to Dubai to accompany his family this evening. He had booked the ticket a few days prior as pressures rose among Russia and Ukraine.

In any case, his flight was dropped as Ukraine shut its airspace to non military personnel flights, refering to a high gamble to somewhere safe.

Addressing Khaleej Times via telephone from Kiev, the third-year MBBS understudy said he was to travel to Dubai with two of his companions.

“I woke up around 5.30am after a companion called, saying Russia had assaulted Ukraine. This companion was to fly out in the first part of the day and was at the air terminal when the assault occurred. He needed to get back to the lodging as the air terminal was shut,” he said.

Nazeel, who stays in a loft, said he was moving back to his inn as a wellbeing measure.

The kid had finished his tutoring in Dubai prior to moving to Kiev to seek after MBBS at the Bogomolets National Medical University.

The Indian kid assessed that there are somewhere in the range of 20 previous UAE occupants seeking after a similar course at the college.

Nazeel’s dad, Nazar, said the family was worried about him being abandoned and are “petitioning God for his security and that of others abandoned there”.

Three UAE aircrafts – flydubai, Air Arabia and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi – have suspended trips to Ukraine briefly.

Flydubai said flights have been suspended for now, while Air Arabia said the suspension is “until additional notification”.

Wizz Air said the “carrier should briefly suspend all flight tasks in the country”.

Russian powers on Thursday terminated rockets at a few Ukrainian urban communities and landed troops on its south coast after President Vladimir Putin approved what he called an extraordinary military activity in the east.