India continued its efforts to evacuate over 700 Indian students from the embattled northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday. However, it found little success as severe shelling and airstrikes continued.
Meanwhile, a tweet from Indian embassy in Ukraine said that its team has been stationed in Poltava to coordinate safe passage of Indian students stranded in Sumy to Western borders via Poltava. It said a confirmed time and date for evacuating the students will be issued soon.
On Saturday morning, the Indian students posted a video saying they have decided to leave for the Russian border and that the Indian government and the embassy in Ukraine will be responsible if anything happens to them.
Following the video, the Indian embassy in Ukraine requested them not to endanger their lives and conveyed that it will leave no stone unturned to safely evacuate them.
India has brought back over 15,920 of its nationals in 76 flights under mission “Operation Ganga’ which was launched on February 26 following Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.
