MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said most Indian embassy officials have moved from Kyiv to Lviv near the border with Poland and the location of others remains dynamic, “hence the re-entry into Kyiv (and the death of the injured Indian student). Helping) is not easy.
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“We were in a cab to Lviv. We were stopped at a barricade and suddenly it started raining bullets. I thought this was the end. I am alive by the grace of God.’ I have no idea if they made it or not. I thought I would not make it,” Singh said.
Singh’s brother Prabhjot Singh said, “Three days later when he regained consciousness, he was in the hospital with bullet injuries and a fracture in his leg. All his documents including passport are missing. He does not know what happened to his friends.” ”
Meanwhile, of the 1,000 Indian students who reached Pesochin near Kharkiv, many had left for Lviv in 2 buses and many others in 3 other buses towards the border with Moldova. Two more buses with Indian students were scheduled to leave the area on Friday evening.
While the center described as a good move the Russian announcement that 130 buses were waiting to ferry Indian students from eastern Ukraine to Belgorod in Russia, the foreign ministry said the students were located 50-60 km from the buses. And it was not possible to get on the vehicles without passing through the war zone. “Need to see the whole picture. While this is a good step, the crucial step of taking the students to buses through the conflict zone is missing. we are in touch with Russia and Ukraine to facilitate the evacuation for the local ceasefire,” the official said.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla also spoke to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine to help in the evacuation from eastern Ukraine and bring back the mortal remains of Indian student Naveen Shekharappa, who was killed in the shelling earlier.
While Russia and Ukraine agreed in their talks on Thursday for a humanitarian corridor, the government said it had heard nothing of the proposal’s implementation. The government again denied that any Indian student was held hostage in Ukraine. Following earlier claims by Russia that Indian students had been taken hostage and were being used as human shields by Ukraine’s military, President Vladimir Putin was quoted again on Thursday as saying that there are 3000 Indian students in Kharkiv. was being held hostage.
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