Student who returned from Ukraine takes picture with Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
Highlights
- Air India flight AI1944 that had taken off from Bucharest in Romania earlier today, has landed in M
- BMC will provide free services to all the students who returned from Ukraine today.
- Similarly, another flight has taken off from Bucharest which is headed for Delhi.
The Air India flight AI1944 that had taken off from Bucharest in Romania earlier today, has landed in Mumbai, with 219 evacuated Indians from Ukraine. Union Minister Piyush Goyal interacted with the Indian students who were evacuated from Ukraine via Romania. He said that the Government will not stop until all of them are back home.He further said more evacuation flights are being operated and the second flight is likely to land in Delhi in the wee hours of Sunday.
"Since the beginning of this crisis, our main objective was to bring back each and every Indian stranded in Ukraine. 219 students have arrived here. This was the first batch, the second will reach Delhi soon. We'll not stop until all of them are back home," Goyal told ANI.
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has said that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will provide free services to all the students who returned from Ukraine today. "We will provide them free Covid testing, vaccines, food and all other facilities", she told news agency ANI.
Similarly, another flight has taken off from Bucharest which is headed for Delhi. It took off from the national capital at 11:40 am today and is expected to reach Bucharest by 6:30 pm. The second flight is expected to bring back 250 Indians.
Air India's first flight departed from Bucharest in Romania with 219 evacuated Indians, informed External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday. The evacuation comes amid Ukraine's invasion by Russia.
Indian nationals who reached the Ukraine-Romania border by road were taken to Bucharest by Indian government officials so that they can be evacuated in the Air India flights.
Air India will operate more flights on Saturday to Bucharest and Hungarian capital Budapest to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine. The Ukrainian airspace has been closed for civil aircraft operations since February 24 morning and therefore, the evacuation flights are operating out of Bucharest and Budapest.
