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In a huge relief all Indian citizens who were stranded in Ukraine’s Sumy, where hostilities have surged following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, were evacuated on Tuesday, Ministry of External Affairs said.
“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,” said Arindam Bagchi, official spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs, in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
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
More than 600 students are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine. From there they are expected to fly back to India via flights under the Operation Ganga rescue mission.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri had also confirmed that 694 students are onboard buses which are evacuating them from Sumy. “They will be taken to Poltava in Ukraine,” he had said.
The Ukraine foreign ministry had said that “civilians, including foreign students, from Sumy to Poltava are on board buses and are being evacuated.”
