PM Modi’s high level meeting, discussion on the strategy to evacuate Indians trapped in Ukraine

Russia Ukraine War: Prime minister Narendra Modi held another high-level meeting on Monday evening regarding the Ukraine crisis. Several officials including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, VK Singh, Kiren Rijiju and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla were present in this meeting.

According to sources, in this meeting, Prime Minister Modi was asked about the latest situation of the ongoing standoff between Ukraine and Russia, what preparations have been made to evacuate the Indians trapped there and how to prepare a strategy to evacuate the Indians trapped in the most sensitive areas. Information is being given on this.

In the meeting held earlier in the day, the Prime Minister had asked four Union ministers to visit Ukraine’s neighboring countries. Under this, VK Singh will go to Poland, Kiren Rijiju Slovakia, Hardeep Puri will go to Hungary while Jyotiraditya Scindia will go to Romania and Moldova.

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PM Modi, while presiding over the meeting on Sunday evening, stressed on the safe evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine in the wake of the Russian attack, terming it a priority of his government.

Let us inform that so far about 1400 Indians have been brought home from Ukraine. About 20 thousand Indians were in Ukraine when the war started four days ago. After this, about eight thousand Indians have reached neighboring countries from Ukraine border. They are being brought back.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said on Monday that we are encouraging Indians to go to the western part of Ukraine. At the same time, we are also emphasizing that people should not directly reach the border area. They (Indians) reached the western side and stayed in a nearby town.

Bagchi said that if the Indians trapped there will reach the border directly, then there will be a lot of crowd, so it will take a lot of time to evacuate them. The spokesman said, “Don’t panic. Contact our team (Ministry of External Affairs). Share your location.

He said that flight of planes is not a problem for us and more flights can be started. He said that once people cross the border with Ukraine, they will be taken out.

Significantly, due to the closure of Ukraine’s airspace, India is evacuating its citizens from there through its (Ukraine’s) border posts with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

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