Indian students flee to the railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine. Weekend curfew lifted

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Indian students in Ukraine have been advised by the Indian embassy to go to the railway station in the capital of Kyiv for their journey to safer parts of Ukraine and eventually to other nations. The Indian embassy informed the Indian students that the curfew had been lifted and that they could go to the railway station of Kyiv to get out of the war torn areas in the eastern parts of the country. “Weekend curfew lifted in Kyiv. All students are advised to make their way to the railway station for onward journeys to the western parts. Ukraine Railways is putting special trains for evacuations,” the embassy tweeted.

Indian external affairs minister Mr S Jaishankar tweeted that the sixth flight under India’s Operation Ganga evacuation mission left for Delhi from Budapest with 240 Indians. Harsh Vardhan Shringla, India’s foreign secretary has stated that the major concern for the Indian embassy was the safety and security of the Indian nationals stranded on extreme war torn areas having intense fighting including Kyiv which has around two thousand Indians. More than two thousand Indians have been evacuated and more than one thousand have already been brought back home on chartered flights from Hungary and Romania.

Ukraines Eastern region has been heavily affected by intense fighting. Areas including Kharkiv and Sumy have been marked as conflict zones and the Indian embassy is trying hard to relocate its people to the western part of the country and finally evacuate them through border crossings to Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

“The Ministry of External Affairs, under the direct supervision of the External Affairs Minister, and the overall guidance of the prime minister is doing everything possible to make sure that the safety, security and the interests of our citizens in Ukraine are given the highest priority,” Shringla was quoted.

India was able to set up offices in Lviv and Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine to facilitate the easy transfer of Indian nationals to Romania, Hungary and Poland. India also set up teams of officials at Zahony border post in Hungary Krakowiec and Shehyni medyka land ports in Poland, Vyšné nemecké in Slovakia, and Suceava în România to facilitate the easy exit of Indian nationals from the Eastern regions of Ukraine. India has been forced to use the land route as Ukraine has shut its airspace for civilian flights after the Russian attack.

Photo Credit: The Quint

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