Kyiv: An Indian student has been shot at, and injured in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv Union Minister VK Singh said on Thursday. The student was trying to escape Kyiv.
During his escape he was shot and got wounded in firing. He was then taken back into the city and is in the Hospital.
“We have heard report of student leaving Kyiv was shot. He was taken back into Kyiv and immediately taken to hospital. This is happening in the fighting,” General (Retd) VK Singh told ANI at Poland’s Rzeszow airport.
Amid heavy shelling of Russian forces at Ukraine’s Kharkiv, an Indian student was killed on Tuesday. The student has been identified as Naveen SG, hailing from Karnataka.
According to reports citing the hostel mate of Naveen, he had stepped out of the shelter they were staying in to bring some supplies for other Indian students. He was standing in a queue in front of a grocery shop when he was hit amid the Russian shelling. A fourth-year MBBS student, Naveen was studying at Kharkiv Medical University.
The minister further stated that the Centre is taking all possible efforts to ensure safe evacuation of stranded Indian nationals from war-torn Ukraine. He said that around 1,700 students are still waiting to be evacuated from Ukraine.
VK Singh is one among the four ministers sent as special envoys to Ukraine’s neighboring countries, for coordinating the evacuation process.
“The Indian embassy had earlier cleared on the priority that everyone should leave Kyiv. In the event of war, the gun bullet does not look at anyone’s religion and nationality,” General Singh was quoted as saying by ANI.
Thousands of students are trying to leave Ukraine by reaching at the borders and crossing over in the countries from where they are being flown back to India in evacuation flights under “Operation Ganga”.
Nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine’s borders since the advisory was issued, says Ministry of External Affairs. Over 6,000 have been flown back home, says the ministry.
Before war broke out, around 20,000 Indians, mainly medical students, were in Ukraine.
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