| Translate This News In |
|---|
Bucharest: The national tricolour of India helped stranded Indians, as well as people from Pakistan and Turkey, get into Ukraine’s neighbouring countries.
The national tricolour aided Indian students, as well as some Pakistani and Turkish students, in securely past multiple checkpoints in the war-torn country, according to Indian students who landed in Bucharest, Romania from Ukraine.
The Indian students arrived in Romania in order to board special evacuation aircraft from Ukraine’s neighbouring nations as part of ‘Operation Ganga.’ Special evacuation flights are being operated by Air India, SpiceJet, and Indigo.
“We were informed in Ukraine that being Indians and flying the Indian flag would not cause any problems,” a medical student from Odesa, Ukraine, stated.
The children described how they went to the marketplaces to buy spray paints to make Indian flags.
“I dashed to the store and purchased some colour sprays and a curtain. After that, I cut the curtain and spray-painted the Indian tricolour on it “explained one of the students.
According to them, some Pakistani and Turkish students used the Indian flag to get through inspections.
“The Indian flag was also being used by Turkish and Pakistani students,” a student explained, adding that the Indian flag had been of tremendous assistance to the Pakistani and Turkish students.
The Odessa students relocated to Romania from Molodova.
“We travelled to the Molodova border by bus from Odesa. Moldovans were quite pleasant. They offered us free lodging, as well as taxis and buses to send us to Romania “remarked a student They didn’t have much trouble in Molodova because the Indian embassy had already made the necessary arrangements, he added.
The students also thanked the Indian embassy authorities for providing them with food and shelter while they awaited their flights back to India.
“When a student arrives here, he’s transported to a proper shelter and fed while registration takes place and the dates for their evacuation are finalised,” the student explained.
Following a high-level conference headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian government dispatched four Union Cabinet ministers to Ukraine’s neighbouring countries to coordinate the evacuation efforts.
