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Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted, “Happy to share that we have been able to evacuate all Indian students from Sumi. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board a train to Western Ukraine.
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succeeded in getting all the Indian students out of Sumi
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said the Indian students evacuated from Sumi were being taken to Poltava, from where they would board trains to western Ukraine. Poltava is about 175 km from Sumi. “Happy to share that we have been successful in getting all Indian students out of Sumi,” Bagchi tweeted. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board a train to Western Ukraine.
However, information has not been given yet from which border point the people will be brought back to India. The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson also posted a video on Twitter that showed Indian students having refreshments near parked buses.
Russia brought citizens of other countries to the borders
In a statement, the Russian Embassy said that thanks to the unprecedented security measures taken by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 723 people have been evacuated from Sumi to the border with Poland via Poltava, 576 of them are citizens of India, China. K 115, Jordan K 20, Tunisia 12. Let us tell you that Russia has agreed to provide humanitarian corridors so that people can be evacuated from war-torn areas.
A day earlier, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had confirmed that the evacuation process for Indian students stranded in Sumi has begun and they are being taken to Poltava in buses. “I checked from the control room, there were 694 Indian students remaining in Sumi,” Puri told reporters here. Today, they all left in buses to Poltava.
India has brought back more than 17,100 citizens
For the past few days, there has been intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Sumi. India was making efforts to evacuate its citizens from the city in northeastern Ukraine, but faced the challenge of heavy shelling and air strikes. India has so far brought back more than 17,100 of its citizens from Ukraine.