Indians in Kyiv maybe evacuated by road: MEA

February 24, 2022 22:15

Foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla

The ministry of external affairs on Thursday unveiled its plan to evacuate citizens stuck in Ukraine.

"We will handle the evacuation with utmost precaution. Roadways have been mapped out to evacuate Indian nationals from Kyiv and reach safer places," Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla told a media briefing.

"We are in touch with the ministry of defence to keep provision for airlift (of Indians) capacity, in regard to the situation in Ukraine," Shringla added.

On the diplomatic front, he said, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar is expected to speak to the Ukrainian foreign minister today, as well as foreign ministers of Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.

"Some sanctions have been imposed on Russia by the UK, the US, Australia, Japan among others. We have to see what impact these sanctions will have on our interests. Any sanctions will have an impact on our relationship, I think it would be correct to acknowledge that," Shringla stated in the media briefing.

"Our embassy in Ukraine continues to be functional. A number of advisories have been issued by embassies on the situation as it evolves. We're consulting universities, student contractors in the process of providing welfare and safety of our students.

"We started the registration of Indian nationals in Ukraine about a month ago. Based on online registration, we found that 20,000 Indian nationals were there," Shringla said.

Some 4000 Indian nationals have already left Ukraine in the past few days, and the MEA control room in Delhi has got 980 calls and 850 emails,' the foreign secretary stated.

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