All Indian students stranded in Sumy evacuated, says MEA

All Indian students stranded in Ukraine’s Sumy have been evacuated, MEA said. (Photo: PTI/File)

The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday informed that all students who had been stranded in Ukraine’s Sumy city have been evacuated.

Taking to microblogging site Twitter, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said all Indian students have been moved out from Sumy and are en route to Poltava. The students will then board trains to western Ukraine. They will be brought home aboard special flights under ‘Operation Ganga’.

Bagchi wrote: Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine. Flights under Operation Ganga are being prepared to bring them home.”

Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy.

They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine.

Flights under #OperationGanga are being prepared to bring them home. pic.twitter.com/s60dyYt9U6

— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) March 8, 2022

Meanwhile, the Indian Embassy in Kyiv advised Indian citizens to make use of the humanitarian corridors opening at 10 am Moscow time (12.30 pm IST) on Tuesday to leave the country using trains or vehicles or any other available means of transport.

In a new advisory, the Indian embassy said, “The humanitarian corridor for evacuation of stranded people has been announced in various parts of Ukraine from 10.00 hours on March 8, 2022 (local time). Considering the security situation, establishment of the next humanitarian corridor is uncertain.”

The embassy urged people to leave immediately as there was no certainity of the next humanitarian corridor.