Indian Air Force asked to join the evacuation efforts in Ukraine

According to sources, Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji has asked the Indian Air Force to join in the efforts being made to evacuate Indian nationals and students stuck over there.

Today, a flight carrying 182 passengers landed in Mumbai from the capital of Romania, Bucharest, as the air space in Ukraine had been closed.

Several C-17 aircrafts are expected to be deployed by the Indian Air Force as a part of the Operation Ganga. Two other flights are expected to evacuate Indians from Bucharest as well as Budapest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji has had a word with Romania as well as the Slovak Republic regarding the evacuation of Indian citizens from Ukraine. Slovak Republic and Romania are Ukraine’s neighboring countries from where the Indian students are being evacuated.

Sources have informed that an estimated number of 20,000 Indian students were stuck in Ukraine and now about 8,000 of them have left the country since its first advisory earlier this month.

Updated by Urvi Ramchandani