Operation Ganga | Hardeep Singh Puri Confirms That 694 Indian Students Have Left Sumy

Mar 08,2022

On Tuesday, Union minister Hardeep Singh Singh Puri confirmed that the evacuation process for Indian students stranded in the war-torn Ukrainian city of Sumy has started and they are being been taken in buses to Poltava. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri told reporters here that 694 Indian students, who were stranded in Sumy, left for Poltava in buses on Tuesday. "A medical student at Sumy university, who did not wish to be identified, confirmed that buses had arrived and students had started boarding the buses. We have been told that we will go to Poltava. I am praying that we reach a safe zone and this misery is over," he said. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy ways to start the stalled evacuation of Indian students from Ukraine's besieged Sumy city pummelled by the invading Russian forces.