An Air India flight carrying 182 Indian nationals was evacuated from Ukraine this morning and landed in Mumbai via the Romanian capital Bucharest, an Air India spokesman said. The flight, which landed at Mumbai Airport at 7.40am after a layover in Kuwait, was the second government-operated Bucharest-Mumbai repatriation flight in the past 72 hours.
This and all other evacuation flights are part of “Operation Ganges” to bring back Indians stranded in Ukraine after Russian troops invaded the eastern European country last week, sparking concerns about a major European crisis sweeping the rest of the world. fears of military conflict.
India is conducting evacuation flights from countries bordering Ukraine – Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – after Ukraine’s airspace was closed by the Russian Air Force.
Also on Monday, a new overland evacuation route was opened – via Moldova.
Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar tweeted this morning that another Operation Ganga flight – the ninth so far – had taken off from Bucharest with 218 people on board.
The government announced on Monday that it had brought back about 8,000 Indians so far. When the war broke out, Ukraine had nearly 20,000 nationals, many of them students, according to preliminary reports.
The government said it would operate more flights to bring back all Indians, while issuing advice to nationals wishing to leave Ukraine.
“We asked Indians to go to western Ukraine, but due to the urgency, we did not go directly to the border. Go to nearby towns and take shelter. We are taking precautions there… Don’t panic, we have enough flights,” the government said. Say.
India has also agreed to provide Ukraine with humanitarian aid, including medicine, but has stopped calling on Russia to launch an attack.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has discussed the evacuation of Indian nationals from Ukraine with his Slovak and Romanian counterparts and thanked both countries for their support in the process.
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