Indian students from the city of Sumy Ukraine, among the last major groups that will be evacuated from Eastern European countries amid Russian invasion, it is likely to be flown from Thursday from Poland.
Announcing Wednesday’s development, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine said students – who have been stranded at Sumy State University in Northeast Ukraine – have risen special trains from Lviv to Poland on the Western border.
Indian Ambassador Parha Satpathy marks a special train. “Ambassador flag from a special train with 600 Indian students from Sumy University at the Lviv train station. They will travel to Poland and are expected to ride evacuation flights to India tomorrow. Safe to be strong,” the embassy was posted on Twitter.
Embassies are added in other tweets that the Ukrainian authority helps regulate the train. “The mission will continue to facilitate their movements to the West. Bring our students safely and safely will remain our priority,” it was a tweet.
Mahtab, a student who is part of the Homebound group, told Indian Express on the phone: “We reach Lviv in the afternoon and are on our way to the Polish border.”
Evacuating students from Sumy has emerged as a big challenge for the government, which has brought back Indian citizens from the country surrounded through Air India and the Indian Air Force aircraft under “Operation Ganga”.
With Ganga’s operation reached its last leg, the government asked the remnants of India spread in Ukraine to take advantage of the humanitarian corridor as a corridor announcement like that “uncertain”.
The evacuation from Sumy came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy, seek their support to create a safe road for students.
The source said the “whole government” approach was followed for the evacuation mission where several teams in Delhi, Ukraine and Russia worked all the time.
They said about 50 Indian officials, including a large number of Russian-language diplomats, were sent to the Indian Embassy in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and Hungary to coordinate the evacuation process.
The source said at least 15 students from a number of countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Tunisia could leave Sumy in Indian convoys due to Indian efforts.