Indian Shot In Kyiv Airlifted From Poland, Embassy Thanks Driver For 700 Km Ride Through War Zone

New Delhi: The Indian Embassy in Ukraine on Monday tweeted about Harjot Singh, the Indian national who had received three bullet injuries in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, having been “successfully transferred over more than 700km in the face of war zone constraints” of bombing and shelling.

Singh has boarded the IAF C17 AC flight operated by the Air Force for India.

The embassy also thanked the driver, who drove him to Bodomierz border under the dangers of shelling and constraints of fuel shortage, roadblocks, detours and traffic jams.

The 31-year-old information technology specialist, who was in Kyiv for higher studies, was shot at after being caught in a gunfight while trying to escape Kyiv in a taxi on February 27. Harjot had received four bullets injuries, including one in the chest and regained consciousness in a hospital on March 2.

“Harjot Singh, an Indian national who sustained bullet injuries in Kyiv and lost his passport, will return to India with us tomorrow,” Union minister Gen (Retd) VK Singh had tweeted on Sunday. The government had also announced to bear his medical expenses in Kyiv.

Earlier, Naveen Shekharappa, a fourth-year medical student, was killed in Russian shelling at Kharkiv while out to buy groceries.