Safe Home Return Of Odisha Students, Workers; Cm Naveen Seeks Shah’s Help
Bhubaneswar, Feb 25: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik spoke to Union Home Minister Amit Shah over telephone on Friday morning, requesting him to take urgent steps to bring back students and workers from Odisha who are stranded in Ukraine.
Shah assured Odisha CM that the Centre is in constant touch with the Ukraine government and working to bring back Indians at the earliest. Both the federal Govt. are keen to bring back the Indians as their relatives are in panic, about their dear ones stranded in the war-hit Ukraine.
More than 1,500 students from Odisha are caught in Ukraine’s war zones, desperately awaiting evacuation.
Mostly medical students at National Medical University in Kharkiv and Kyiv Medical University, many of them have moved into bomb shelters and safe zones since Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday.
The students had started making preparations to leave Ukraine after the West warned of an imminent attack by Russia and the Indian government asked its citizens to fly out a few days ago.
Most were hopeful of boarding flights in the first week of March. But Ukraine closed its airspace to civilian flights on Thursday, leaving them stranded.
