Leave Kharkiv immediately, proceed to settlements on foot
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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday (March 2) emphasised on stranded nationals to leave Ukraine’s city Kharkiv, which has seen intense shelling in past days, immediately, even if on foot.We would urge all our nationals to leave Kharkiv immediately to safe zones or further westwards using any means available, including on foot, and keeping safety in mind.
Encouraging reports that some students were able to board trains out of Kharkiv last night, today morning...We've been in communication with Russian side regarding safe passage of our nationals from Kharkiv and other cities.We now estimate that nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine borders since our advisories were issued in the last week of January.
On if PM Modi will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin again tonight: "Prime Minister has been speaking to leaders of several countries. We share with you whenever such talks take place. I would not like to say anything beforehand," Bagchi said.
A mechanism for issuing emergency certificates to those who lost their Indian passports has been instituted. I think this will also help many Indian students. Chandan Jindal, an Indian national in Ukraine's Vinnytsia lost his life due to natural causes. His family members are also in Ukraine.
In principle, we're always ready to help other countries. If we get an open door like that, and we can make it happen, then we will help. Indian Aviation based armed forces airplane have joined Activity Ganga with the principal C-17 departure from Bucharest (Romania) expected to get back to Delhi sometime in the evening. 3 more IAF flights will be embraced today from Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania) and Rzeszow (Poland).
During the most recent 24 hours, 6 flights have arrived in India, taking the all out number of flights that have arrived in India to 15 and the absolute number of Indians who have returned on these trips to 3,352.As numerous as 15 flights are booked throughout the following 24 hours. Some of these are already actually en route.