Indian students are on their way to Poland, at that point going back domestic to India today.
Indian students from Ukraine’s Sumy city, who were among the last significant groups to be evacuated from the east European country during the Russian invasion, are expected to be flown home from Poland on Thursday.
The Indian Embassy in Ukraine announce the news on Wednesday, saying that the students, who also had been stranded at Sumy State University in northeast Ukraine, had takes a special train from Lviv to Poland’s western border.
The special train was flag off by Indian Ambassador Partha Satpathy. At Lviv Railway Station, the Ambassador flags off a special train with 600 Indian students from Sumy University. They will go to Poland, where they would also catch evacuation flights to India the next day. On Twitter, the embassy said, “Be Safe, Be Strong.”
In another tweet, the embassy stated that Ukrainian authorities assisted in the train’s arrangement. “Mission will continue to assist them in their westward journey. Bringing back our students safely and securely will remain our priority,” it tweeted.
“We arrived Lviv in the afternoon and are on our way to the Poland border,” Mahtab; a student in the homebound group, told The Indian Express over the phone.
The government has been sending Indian nationals back from the beleaguered nation using Air India; and Indian Air Force aircraft under “Operation Ganga;” but evacuating the students from Sumy has proven to be a big difficulty.
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83 planes have returned nearly 17,100 Indians as of Tuesday.
The government has asked the remaining trapped Indians in Ukraine; to use the humanitarian corridors as Operation Ganga nears its end; saying that an announcement of another such corridor is “uncertain. The students were also evacuate from Sumy after Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet; with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ask for their help in creating a safe passage for them.
Sumy is 350 kilometers east of Kyiv and 180 kilometers north of Kharkiv. Over the last few days, the city, which is close to the Russian border, has seen fierce clashes. Harsh Vardhan Shringla, India’s foreign secretary; met with Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister as well as Russian and Ukrainian envoys in Delhi.
According to sources, the evacuation mission took a “whole of government” strategy; with different teams working around the clock in Delhi, Ukraine, and Russia.
Also around 50 Indian officials, including a large number of Russian-speaking diplomats; were dispatch to Indian embassies in Ukraine, Romania, Poland; and also Hungary to organize the evacuation procedure, according to the sources.
According to sources, also India’s efforts allowed at least 15 students from a variety of nations; including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Tunisia, to escape Sumy in the Indian convoy.