PM reviewing Ukraine situation twice a day: Rajnath

March 02, 2022 15:29

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on repatriation of the body of Naveen Shekharappa, an MBBS student who died in shelling in Ukraine. "Our MEA, PM working on it. Given the situation in Ukraine, there is no airstrip... even a plane can't land there.

"PM is reviewing the situation in Ukraine twice a day. Evacuation continues. Now we've also deployed an IAF plane. About 2,500 people have been evacuated till this morning and they are being sent to neighbouring nations and being brought back from there."

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