The students’ journey took many days of travel by bus, train and plane throughout Ukraine and across borders.

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As Shivangi Shibu watched her fellow students goof off, pushing each other in line at an airport in Poland, she let out a carefree laugh for what felt like the first time in days. “Finally, we were going home,” Shibu, 25, told USA TODAY after she returned home to Patna, India, this weekend. “You could feel the excitement. It felt like a miracle.”

Shibu and hundreds of Sumy State University students living in the school's six hostels had been trapped in a northeastern Ukrainian city for about two weeks with little food and water after Russia launched its invasion.

The international students — Shibu estimates about 700 students from India, 400 from Nigeria and others from countries including Turkey and South Africa — eventually found their way home over the course of last week and weekend after many days of travel by bus, train and plane throughout Ukraine and across borders.

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