India, Feb 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls a high-level meeting on Monday on the Ukraine crisis and decided that Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and Gen (retd) VK Singh travel to neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinate the evacuation mission and help students.
This has been confirmed by the government source.
On Monday morning, blasts were heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the major city of Kharkiv, according to Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, the Guardian reported.
Kyiv had been quiet for a few hours prior, according to a brief statement posted on the Telegram messaging app. Meanwhile, air raid sirens were also heard in capital Kyiv, reports said.
The fifth Operation Ganga flight, carrying 249 Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine, which departed from Bucharest (Romania) reached Delhi airport.
Update (13:35 pm):
The latest Tweet by ANI states, ‘#RussiaUkraineConflict | Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will look after Romania and Moldova, Kiren Rijiju will go to Slovakia, Hardeep Singh Puri will go to Hungary and Gen VK Singh will be in Poland to manage the evacuation of Indians stuck in Ukraine.’
#RussiaUkraineConflict | Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will look after Romania and Moldova, Kiren Rijiju will go to Slovakia, Hardeep Singh Puri will go to Hungary and Gen (Retd) VK Singh will be in Poland to manage the evacuation of Indians stuck in Ukraine.
— ANI (@ANI) February 28, 2022
