NEW DELHI, 26 February 2022, (TON): The Indian government will evacuate all Indian nationals from Ukraine, India's Ambassador said here as he assured Indian students holed up in this country, a day after Russia launched a massive military operation against it.

Indian Ambassador to Ukraine Partha Satpathy also urged the students taking refuge in temporary shelters to be "realistic about the situation and convey to friends and families that everything would just be fine."

With Russia announcing a military operation in Ukraine, thousands of Indian students enrolled in Ukrainian higher education institutions, mostly studying medicine, are in a state of panic and pleading with authorities to ensure their safe return to India.

Mr Satpathy said while speaking to students who were holed up here "the government of India is completely seized with the matter. Every Indian will go back home. Planes are being lined up. Personnel is being lined up, but it's a warzone. We will have to work out the logistics and find the modalities to reach the West.”