By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Power’s first evacuation flight with 200 Indians from Romanian capital Bucharest landed on the Hindon air base right here within the early hours of Thursday, assets mentioned.
The primary flight — which used to be carried out the usage of C-17 army delivery airplane — landed in Delhi at 1.30 am.
3 extra C-17 airplane of the Indian Air Power (IAF) with roughly 300 evacuees from Ukraine will land on the Hindon airbase through 8 am on Thursday, assets mentioned.
India has been evacuating its voters thru particular flights from Ukraine’s western neighbours akin to Romania, Hungary and Poland because the Ukrainian airspace has been close since February 24 because of the Russian army offensive.
The IAF planes also are coming from those neighbouring international locations, assets mentioned.
Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt gained the Indian evacuees of the primary C-17 flight on the airbase, they mentioned.
Roughly 8,000 Indians, principally scholars, are stranded in Ukraine, International Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had mentioned on Tuesday.
4 Union ministers have long gone to Ukraine’s western neighbours to facilitate the evacuation of Indian nationals.
Hardeep Singh Puri is in Hungary, Jyotiraditya Scindia is in Romania, Kiren Rijiju is in Slovakia and V Okay Singh is in Poland.