Officials announced on Friday that the Indian Air Force (IAF) has kept two IL-76 military transport aircraft on standby to evacuate Indians stuck in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine cities like Sumy and Kharkiv from Moscow. Indians stranded in eastern Ukraine cities, where the conflict is the most intense, are unable to travel to Ukraine’s western border, the IAF is planning to remove them from Moscow with the assistance of Russian military troops, according to officials.
The IAF is aiming to rescue Indians stranded in eastern Ukrainian cities, where the conflict is the most intense, from Moscow with the assistance of Russian military troops, according to officials.
As Ukraine’s airspace has been closed since February 24, when the Russian military incursion began, India has begun evacuating its residents from Ukraine’s western neighbours such as Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary.
The Indian Air Force has evacuated a total of 1,428 Indians from Ukraine’s western neighbouring countries on seven flights so far. These seven flights were carried out by C-17 planes that originated in the United States.
