The Indian students from Ukraine’s Sumy city are to be evacuated from the east European country amid the Russian invasion, will likely be flown home on Thursday from Poland.
A special train from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv transported the last big batch of Indian nationals out of the war-ravaged Russia-Ukraine country on Wednesday, which is likely to put an end on the Indian government’s ‘Operation Ganga’ to fly stranded nationals back home from neighboring countries.
The government of India has claimed that more than 22,000 Indians had returned from Ukraine since the first advisory was issued before the Russians invaded its smaller neighbor on February 24.
The last batch of over 600-700 Indian students was stranded in Sumy, caught in the intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces. After one aborted attempt, they were finally evacuated in a humanitarian corridor agreed by the two sides on Tuesday.
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The operation in Sumy began on Tuesday morning when the last big group of 600 Indians was evacuated from the city.
Sources stated that the approval for the second successful attempt came late on Monday night from Ukrainian authorities. “The buses reached at 8 am and left by 9 am. We were very worried till we reached the mid-point (on the way to Poltava).”
The evacuation from Sumy came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seeking their support to create a safe passage for the students.
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