India: India's Last Evacuation Flights Out Of Ukraine Today, Sources

NEW DELHI, 10 March 2022, (TON): India will wind up Operation Ganga the evacuation programme for Indian nationals from war-torn Ukraine and by tomorrow evening, the last flight will take off, bringing home the government teams sent specially for the evacuation.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the government has evacuated around 18,000 Indian nationals, most of them students.

The last batch of students, nearly 700 stranded in Sumy near the Russian border are on way to western Ukraine on train, from where they will take home-bound flights. 

Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia today tweeted that the last special flight from Romania was taking off.

Nearly 8000 Indians evacuated through Romania.

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