New Delhi: Stepping up its efforts to evacuate Indian students stranded in war-hit Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high level meeting on Ukraine crisis. Modi has decided to depute four Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and V K Singh to travel to Ukraine's neighbouring countries to coordinate the evacuation mission and help students, government sources said.
Singh will visit Poland, Jyotiraditya Scindia Romania and Moldova, Kiren Rijiju Slovakia and Hardeep Singh Puri Hungary to manage the evacuation of Indians stuck in Ukraine. These ministers will be going there as "special envoys" of India, they said. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Several ministers, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, also attended the meeting. This comes at a time when the Government of India is evacuating stranded Indian citizens from Ukraine under the evacuation plan titled 'Operation Ganga'.
A fifth flight carrying 249 Indian nationals, who were stranded in Ukraine landed in New Delhi on Monday morning. The flight running as part of 'Operation Ganga' had departed from Romania's Bucharest in the early hours of Monday. Earlier on Saturday, the PM spoke with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and expressed India's willingness to contribute in any way towards peace efforts in the wake of the ongoing conflict situation in Ukraine. Zelenskyy briefed Modi in detail about the ongoing conflict situation in Ukraine due to Russia's military operations.
