[Watch] Indian Students Stranded In Ukraine To Board AI Flight From Hungary Today

By OB Bureau On Feb 26, 2022

Bhubaneswar: More batches of Indian students entered Hungary from the Ukrainian side at the Zahony crossing on Saturday. They will be travelling to Budapest, from where they will board an Air India flight for India, the Indian Embassy in Hungary tweeted.

More batches of Indian students enter Hungary from Ukrainian side at Zahony crossing, travelling onward to Budapest for return to India by AI flight today @MEAIndia @IndiainUkraine @IndianDiplomacy @DDNewslive @airindiain pic.twitter.com/XleEiGwbyH

— Indian Embassy in Hungary (@IndiaInHungary) February 26, 2022

It has also issued an advisory for Indians in Ukraine desiring to be evacuated via Hungary:

India has positioned teams of officials at Zahony border post in Hungary, Krakowiec as well as Shehyni-Medyka land border points in Poland, Vysne Nemecke in the Slovak Republic and Suceava transit point in Romania to coordinate the exit of Indian nationals from Ukraine.

Camp offices were set up in Lviv and Chernivtsi towns in western Ukraine to facilitate the transit of Indians to Hungary, Romania and Poland.

Earlier in the day, the first flight carrying 219 Indian students left Romania for Mumbai at 2:45 pm.

Union Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar had tweeted that he is personally monitoring the evacuation of Indian national from Ukraine, which is under attack from Russia.