Exploring all potential methods to evacuate Indians from Sumy: Embassy

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Indian embassy in Ukraine on Saturday stated it’s exploring all potential methods to soundly evacuate the Indian nationals from jap Ukranian metropolis of Sumy.

The mission stated it’s in contact with all interlocutors involved, together with the Red Cross, to determine the exit routes to take out the Indians.

Sumy is likely one of the battle zones witnessing intense preventing between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

“Exploring all possible mechanisms to evacuate Indian citizens in Sumy, safely & securely. Discussed evacuation & identification of exit routes with all interlocutors including Red Cross,” the embassy tweeted.

“Control room will continue to be active until all our citizens are evacuated. Be Safe Be Strong,” it stated.

Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), stated on Friday that round 700 Indians are stranded in Sumy.

At a media briefing, Bagchi additionally urged each the Ukrainian and Russian sides to place in place a “local ceasefire” for evacuation of Indians from the battle zones together with Kharkiv and Sumy.

He stated India is primarily specializing in evacuating its nationals out of the battle zones in jap Ukraine together with from Kharkiv and Sumy, including that the overall variety of Indians caught in Ukraine might be roughly within the vary of two,000 to three,000.