Tales of Indian students stranded in Ukraine | In Photos
The Hindu
Despite India’s efforts to bring back its nationals from the war-torn country, many Indians are still stranded in Ukraine. The Embassy of India in Kyiv has announced that the evacuation was being organised with the joint effort of the Indian embassies in Romania, Hungary, and Poland
After Russia ordered a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, the conflict in the war-torn country was exacerbated. Ukraine closed its airspace, and many Indians stranded there could not get a flight back home. There are approximately 18,000 Indians present in Ukraine with most of them being medical students. Many have sought shelter in the underground bunkers to stay safe as Russia is carrying out bombing raids across the country.
India has carried out a round of evacuation of its nationals stranded in Ukraine. The first batch of Indian students left Chernivtsi in a bus for the Ukraine-Romania border. An Air India plane departed from the Mumbai airport on Saturday morning for the Romanian capital Bucharest to evacuate Indians stranded there.