Tag: Ukraine Crisis

Besides, the shipping, logistics and insurance costs for coal shipments have also climbed up due to the geo-political risks.

One C-17 IAF flight, with 201 Indians onboard, is expected to arrive on Monday evening. "IAF had earlier flown 10 sorties to bring back 2,056 passengers, as part of the 'Operation Ganga'."

A total of 17,000 stranded people have already been evacuated from the conflict zone in Ukraine, Venugopal told the bench, also comprising justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kolhi.

An Indian student Tanuja Patel, who reached the Indira Gandhi International airport on Thursday morning through a special flight from war-torn Ukraine brought her pet dog with her. Talking to the media, Patel said she brought her dog 'Sindu' in a car towards the border area of Ukraine.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and MP Shashi Tharoor also participated in the meeting. They supported the government's efforts in evacuating Indians from the war-torn country.

"Among the received documents are a work card, combat mission, call sign table, control signal tables, hidden control tables, personnel list, etc.

The President thanked the citizens in the cities of Konotop, Bashtanka, Energodar and Melitopol, who he claimed had blocked roads to prevent the Russian troops from entering.

Amid the ongoing war between Russia-Ukraine, the Air India (AI)-192 special flight service successfully airlifted 250 Indian students from Bucharest, Romania, under 'Operation Ganga' in New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport at 3 am on Sunday.

Some 18,000 guns with ammunition have been distributed to reservists in the Kyiv region alone since the Russian invasion began early Thursday, according to Ukrainian authorities, CNN reported.

In addition, Suman Chowdhury, Chief Analytical Officer, Acuite Ratings & Research said: "This will have an impact on the domestic inflationary scenario where there are already significant undercurrents due to increasing pass through of higher commodity prices with improving demand in manufactured products and even services."

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has dashed off a letter to the Centre demanding immediate intervention as there are 2,320 students in Ukraine from Kerala.

"Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force," Putin said in a televised speech to the nation.

Now, the Indian government's immediate priority is to evacuate these people but the closure of Ukrainian airspace makes this a challenging proposition.

Terming the attack as blatant aggression, he said that we are getting fresh information about casualties. They say they are attacking only military facilities, but we have suffered civilian casualties.

Kishida's participation in the Thursday summit, meanwhile, to be hosted by Germany, was announced by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno.