New Delhi. The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that all Indian students have been evacuated from the war-torn Ukraine’s Sumy city and are on flights as part of the ‘Operation Ganga’ campaign. He will be brought back to India.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted, “Glad to inform that we have evacuated all Indian students from Sumi. They are currently on their way to the city of Poltava from where they will board the trains to Western Ukraine.”
He said that he would be brought back to India in flights under Operation Ganga Abhiyan. Bagchi, however, did not specify through which border post and when they would be taken out of Ukraine so that they could take a flight back to India. The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson also shared a video along with the tweet in which Indian students can be seen having refreshments near parked buses.
Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy.
They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine.
Flights under #OperationGanga are being prepared to bring them home. pic.twitter.com/s60dyYt9U6
— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) March 8, 2022
It is noteworthy that India has so far brought back more than 17,100 Indian students stranded in the Eastern European country since the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on 24 February. Russian and Ukrainian troops have been fighting in Sumy for several days. Earlier, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday that evacuation of Indian students has started from the war-torn Ukraine’s Sumy city.
He told reporters, “I have spoken in the control room, till last night there were 694 Indian students in Sumi. All of them have left for Poltava by buses today.”
At the same time, in an advisory issued by the Indian Embassy in Ukraine, all Indian citizens stranded in Ukraine have been urged to use the declared humanitarian corridor in different parts of the country and get out by train, vehicle or other means in view of the security situation.
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The Indian Embassy in Ukraine said on Monday that a team of the mission is stationed in the city of Poltava to coordinate the safe evacuation of Indian students stranded in Sumy via Poltava to the western borders. (agency)