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Bhubaneswar: A large group of around 700 Indian students, including five from Odisha, who were stuck in Ukraine’s Sumy, has reached Poland, from where they will board Operation Ganga flights to India on Thursday.
After reaching Poland, the students thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Ukraine government and its people, the Indian government, the Indian World Forum, Red Cross and the Indian Embassy in Kyiv, ANI tweeted.
#WATCH | Students of Sumy State University, after reaching Poland from #Ukraine, thank PM Narendra Modi, the people & govt of Ukraine, Government of India, the Indian World Forum, RedCross, and Embassy of India in Kyiv.#OperationGanga pic.twitter.com/BuH55IwEeP
— ANI (@ANI) March 9, 2022
#WATCH | Indian students who left from Sumy, Ukraine yesterday, reached Lviv Railway Station today. They are taking a special train straight to Poland.
Officials of the Indian Embassy & Red Cross escorted them.#RussiaUkraineConflict pic.twitter.com/gC0cv1ugXw
— ANI (@ANI) March 9, 2022
Indian students from Sumy on board the special train organised with assistance of Ukrainian authorities. Mission will continue to facilitate their movement westwards. Bringing back our students safely & securely will remain our priority: Embassy of India in Kyiv, #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3rPlaSKpBE
— ANI (@ANI) March 9, 2022
Moved out all Indian students from Ukraine's Sumy: MEA
Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/tgzWTIA3BB#OperationGanga #IndiansInUkraine #UkraineRussianWar #Sumy pic.twitter.com/SwCoMOXlcG
— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) March 8, 2022
The evacuation of the Indian students from Sumy began on Tuesday.
The students were taken from Sumy in a convoy of 13 buses escorted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Poltava in central Ukraine, a three-hour drive from Sumy.
From Poltava, they reached Lviv in western Ukraine by train, a journey of 888 km. At Lviv railway station, they boarded a train to Poland.
Indian envoy to Ukraine Partha Satpathy, who is from Odisha, flagged off the special train at Lviv railway station.
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