The second evacuation flight carrying 250 Indian residents has landed on the Delhi airport
New Delhi:
Air India’s second evacuation flight from Romanian capital Bucharest carrying 250 Indian nationals who have been stranded in Ukraine landed on the Delhi airport within the early hours of Sunday, authorities officers mentioned.
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia welcomed the evacuees on the airport by handing out roses to them.
#WATCH | Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia & MoS MEA V Muraleedharan welcome the Indian nationals safely evacuated from Ukraine through Bucharest (Romania) pic.twitter.com/UsFC7f63xf
— ANI (@ANI) February 26, 2022
India on Saturday started the evacuation of its stranded residents amid the Russian navy offensive in Ukraine, with the primary evacuation flight, AI1944, bringing again 219 individuals from Bucharest to Mumbai within the night.
The second evacuation flight, AI1942, carrying 250 Indian residents landed on the Delhi airport round 2.45 am on Sunday, the officers mentioned.
Air India’s third evacuation flight, AI1940, which is able to depart from Hungarian capital Budapest, can be scheduled to return with evacuees to Delhi on Sunday, they mentioned.
The Ukrainian airspace has been closed for civil plane operations since February 24 morning when the Russian navy offensive started. Subsequently, the Indian evacuation flights are working out of Bucharest and Budapest.
Indian nationals who reached the Ukraine-Romania border and Ukraine-Hungary border have been taken to Bucharest and Budapest, respectively, by street with the help of Indian authorities officers in order that they might be evacuated in these Air India flights, the officers mentioned.
The federal government is just not charging the rescued residents for the evacuation flights, they mentioned.
Air India shared on Twitter photographs of Scindia receiving the evacuees on the airport.
“Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia receiving the Indian nationals who have been flown again to Delhi from Bucharest by AI 1942 on February 27 early morning, operated to evacuate Indians stranded at war-ravaged Ukraine,” the airline mentioned.
Overseas Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had mentioned on February 24 that round 16,000 Indians, primarily college students, have been stranded in Ukraine.
The Indian Embassy in Ukraine mentioned on Twitter on Saturday that Indian residents in Ukraine shouldn’t transfer to any of the border posts with out prior coordination with the Indian authorities officers there utilizing the helpline numbers.
“The state of affairs at varied border checkpoints is delicate and the Embassy is working constantly with our Embassies in our neighbouring international locations for coordinated evacuation of our residents,” it talked about.
The Indian Embassy in Ukraine mentioned it’s discovering it more and more troublesome to assist the crossing of these Indian nationals who’re reaching border checkpoints with out prior intimation.
It mentioned that staying in western cities of Ukraine with entry to water, meals, lodging and fundamental facilities is comparatively safer and advisable in comparison with reaching border checkpoints with out being totally abreast of the state of affairs.
“All these at the moment within the jap sector are requested to proceed to stay of their present locations of residence till additional directions, preserve calm, and keep indoors or in shelters as a lot as potential, with no matter meals, water and facilities out there and stay affected person,” it mentioned.
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