700-km highway journey for injured Indian pupil earlier than boarding flight; embassy hails driver

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Harjot Singh, the Indian pupil who sustained bullet accidents in Kyiv, was taken by highway from the Ukranian capital to a border transit level 700 kilometres away below difficult circumstances in order that he can board an evacuation flight to return residence.

Singh (31) landed on the Hindon Air Force station close to Delhi on Monday night on board a C-17 plane of the Indian Air Force that additionally introduced again a number of different Indians from Poland.

The Indian Embassy in Ukraine put out a collection of tweets giving a way of the difficult scenario wherein Singh was taken out of Kyiv.

“Bringing Harjot Home. Indian student Harjot Singh who sustained bullet injuries at Kyiv was successfully transferred over more than 700km in the face of war zone constraints of bombing /shelling. Evacuated through Poland by IAF C17 Ac,” it tweeted.

In one other submit, the embassy hailed the driving force who transported Singh from Kyiv to the Bodomierz border level.

“Kudos to Indian Embassy driver who successfully transferred Harjot over 700 km from Kyiv to Bodomierz border under dangers of shelling and constraints of fuel shortage, roadblocks, detours and traffic jams,” it mentioned.

India has been bringing again its nationals from Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova after they crossed over to those international locations from Ukraine via land border transit factors.

Ukraine closed its airspace for civilian plane after Russia started its navy operation.

India has introduced again over 17,100 of its nationals in 83 flights below “Operation Ganga”, which was launched on February 26 following Russia’s navy aggression in opposition to Ukraine.