World Desk, AnyTV, Sumi
Published by: Kirtivardhan Mishra
Updated Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:27 PM IST
Summary
India has so far brought back more than 17,100 Indian students stranded in the Eastern European country since Russia’s attack on Ukraine began on February 24.
All Indians expelled from Sumi
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The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that all Indian students have been evacuated from the region amid Russian attacks on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. These students have left for Poltava city by boarding buses.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted, “Happy 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 trains for western Ukraine.
Significantly, 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 February 24. 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. “I spoke in the control room, till last night there were 694 Indian students in Sumi,” he told reporters. All of them have left for Poltava by buses today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky over phone and discussed ways to rescue Indian students from Sumi, who were trapped there after Russia’s attack on the eastern European country. went. 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.