Kyiv, Mar 01: The Indian embassy in Ukraine on Tuesday ask Indians to Leave Kyiv urgently today.
“All Indian nationals including students are advised to leave Kyiv urgently today. Preferably by available trains or through any other means available,” the Indian embassy in Ukraine tweeted.
Advisory to Indians in Kyiv
All Indian nationals including students are advised to leave Kyiv urgently today. Preferably by available trains or through any other means available.
— India in Ukraine (@IndiainUkraine) March 1, 2022
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cleared the participation of the Indian Air Force fleet of C-17 transport aircraft to take part in the operation Ganga to bring back the Indians stranded in war-torn Ukraine.
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“In order to scale up the ongoing evacuation efforts under Operational Ganga, PM Modi has called for the Indian Air Force to join the evacuation efforts. Leveraging the capacities of our Air Force will ensure that more people can be evacuated in a shorter time frame. It will also help deliver humanitarian aid more efficiently. Indian Air Force is likely to deploy several C-17 aircraft as part of Operation Ganga from today,” government sources said here.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered day 6 on Tuesday as fighting intensified across the nation. On Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the West to consider a no-fly zone for Russian aircraft after Moscow bombarded the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv.
Later Ukrainian officials said that the Kharkiv attack has killed several civilians including children.
According to experts, the Russian invasion which is the biggest assault on a European state since World War II has failed to achieve the decisive early gains that Putin had hoped for.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has killed over 350 civilians so far. Latest satellite images have revealed a 40-mile long convoy heading to Kyiv. Ukraine has said their goal for the talks was an immediate ceasefire while Russia’s Vladimir Putin has put the country’s nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty”. Several nations, such as Germany, the US, Australia, and Canada, have decided to send military support to Ukraine.
