Nearly 4,000 Indians brought back from Ukraine in last 24 hours, says govt

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Nearly 4,000 Indian citizens have been brought back to India from Ukraine in the last 24 hours, Ani’s news agency quoted the center. A total of 18 flights landed in India in the last 24 hours.

Until now, a total of 48 flights had landed in India to bring Indian citizens under Ganga surgery, the government said.

Four tranches Humanitarian aid was sent earlier and today two more stages were sent by IAF flights to Poland, Slovakia, Romania.

At present one IAF C-17 flight carries 6 tons of material to Romania and the second carries nine tons of relief material to Slovakia, added the government.

Previously on that day, the center said that the highest attention was paid to evacuate Indians trapped in Kharkiv and Sumy, cities who witnessed malignant battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

According to government officials, two strategic lift aircraft IL-76 Russia was standby to fly out to Moscow as soon as India citizens were taken from two East Ukrainian Warzon to the Russian capital.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy about the evacuation of Indian students from Kharkiv.

Until now, at least 10,800 Indians had been brought back from countries where they were taken to evacuation from Ukraine. More than 18,000 Indian citizens have left a war-hit country since when the first advisor was issued.