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An Air India flight from Romania carrying Indians evacuated from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion will land in Mumbai at 4 p.m. The evacuees will be met at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport by Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
Indian nationals who moved by road to the Ukraine-Romania border are being moved to Bucharest by Indian government ministers so that they can be evacuated on an Air India flight.
Because Ukrainian airspace has been closed to civil aircraft operations since the morning of February 24, evacuation flights are now departing from Bucharest and Budapest.
At 4 p.m. today, an Air India evacuation flight from Romania carrying Indian citizens evacuated from Ukraine will arrive in Mumbai.
Air India’s evacuation flight from Romania carrying Indian citizens evacuated from Ukraine arrives in Mumbai at 4 p.m. today. Prior to the closure of Ukrainian airspace, Air India flew one plane to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on February 22 and returned 240 people to India.
New Delhi had planned to fly two more flights on February 24 and 26, but the Ukrainian airspace was closed due to the Russian offensive.
On Friday night, Air India announced on Twitter that it will operate special government charter flights from Delhi and Mumbai to Bucharest and Budapest on Saturday to fly back stranded Indian citizens.
On Friday, the Indian embassy in Ukraine announced that it is working to establish evacuation routes from Romania and Hungary.
“At the moment, teams are assembling at the following checkpoints: Chop-Zahony Hungarian border near Uzhhorod, Porubne-Siret Romanian border near Chernivtsi,” the statement said.
Indian nationals, particularly students, living near these border checkpoints are advised to depart in a planned manner in coordination with teams from the Ministry of External Affairs to make this option a reality, according to the embassy.
In a new advisory issued today, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine advised Indian citizens not to travel to border posts without first consulting with its officials.
