Leave Kharkiv immediately: India advises citizens

March 02, 2022 17:25

The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued an advisory written in all caps for its citizens in Kharkiv.

"An urgent advisory to all Indian nationals in Kharkiv. For their safety and security they must leave Kharkiv immediately.

Proceed to Pesochin, Babaye and Bezlyudovka as soon as possible.

Under all circumstances they must reach these settlements by 1800 HRS (Ukranian time) today."

The cluster bombing of Kharkiv residential localities by Russian military aircraft has heightened the concerns of the Narendra Modi government as nearly 2500 Indian students are trapped in the warzone of Ukraine's second largest city.

Russian forces have enough firepower to decimate Kyviv and Kharkiv, but the Red Army is being bogged down by stiff Ukrainian resistance with urban guerilla warfare breaking out on streets of Ukraine cities.

Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, a student from Haveri in Karnataka was killed in a bomb blast in Kharkiv on Tuesday morning.

Image: A Ukrainian law enforcement officer holds a weapon while approaching a vehicle in a street in Kharkiv. Reuters/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

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