Mumbai: On the third day of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Air India aircraft AI-1943 carrying 219 Indian students stranded there at 8 pm on Saturday night at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj) International Airport, Mumbai) landed. The plane took off from Bucharest, Romania in the afternoon. A special corridor has been made for the students at Mumbai Airport. To exit from here, the students had to show the certificate of COVID-19 vaccination or negative report of RT-PCR.
A large number of relatives standing outside the airport hugged him. The students were narrating about the bombings in Ukraine. A student told that just understand that after being very thirsty for many days, we have reached our country, this is good. The student thanked the Government of India and the Indian Embassy for his successful return.
Welcome back to the motherland!
Glad to see the smiles on the faces of Indians safely evacuated from Ukraine at the Mumbai airport.
Govt. led by PM @NarendraModi ji is working relentlessly to ensure safety of every Indian. pic.twitter.com/fjuzjtNl9r
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) February 26, 2022
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Goyal welcomed the students
Union Minister Piyush Goyal welcomed the Indian students arriving in Mumbai from Ukraine by boarding the plane. He said that all students are welcome in the motherland. He told the students that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken to the President of Ukraine for the safe return of all of you. Russia has also spoken of the safe return of Indians. Goyal told the students that you should also tell your friends that the government is making them return too and more flights are coming from Romania, Poland and Hungary with the students.
All services of Mumbai Municipal Corporation free
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said on Saturday that students of our country are coming back from Ukraine. These include students from many states. For all of them, all the services have been made free by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation and arrangements have also been made to take them to their homes. There are also more than 200 students from Maharashtra who are stuck in Ukraine. He said that we will provide free COVID test, vaccines, food and all other facilities to all.
student narrated the incident
Students stranded in Ukraine were airlifted to the Poland and Romania border. Earlier on Saturday morning, the bus carrying 52 students left for Poland. Abhishek Nanpariya, a student from Surat said that as soon as the bus started moving, all the students started shouting slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Abhishek told that we had hoped that the Indian government would take us out of here. We are encouraged by the efforts of the Indian Embassy. Abhishek further told that we were kept in the bunker. There the situation is getting worse and worse. Till six-seven days ago, it seemed that the talks of war were rumours, but suddenly the war broke out and no one got a chance to recover.