new Delhi: India has been evacuating its citizens since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month and has so far brought back more than 17,100 of its citizens from Ukraine.
As Operation Ganga continues and Indian citizens, most of them students, are being evacuated from Sumi, a story of a humanitarian rescue operation by India is making headlines.
Indian authorities have rescued a Pakistani national and he is on his way to western Ukraine from where he will be deported.
Asma Shafiq of Pakistan expressed her gratitude for being rescued by the Indian authorities and thanked the Indian Embassy in Kyiv, news agency ANI reported. In a video, she is seen thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
#Watch , Asma Shafiq of Pakistan thanked the Indian Embassy in Kyiv and Prime Minister Modi for their evacuation.
Shas is rescued by Indian authorities and is on his way west #Ukraine For further evacuation from the country. She will be reunited with her family soon: Sources pic.twitter.com/9hiBWGKvNp
— ANI (@ANI) 9 March 2022
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Tuesday that Indian students who had moved out of Sumi are being taken to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine.
The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson also posted a video on Twitter that showed Indian students having refreshments in the background of parked buses.
In addition, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine has urged all stranded Indian nationals to use the declared “humanitarian corridor” in various parts of Ukraine and to evacuate using trains, vehicles or any other available means of transport in view of security. requested.