NEW DELHI, March 4: An Indian student has been shot at and injured in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Friday.
Singh, who is in Poland currently to facilitate the evacuation of Indians stranded in war-hit Ukraine, said, “Today, we heard reports that a student leaving Kyiv was shot at. He was taken back to Kyiv. This will happen in a fighting,” the minister told media persons.
On March 1, a young Indian medical student Naveen was killed in Russian shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv when he ventured out to buy food for himself and fellow students. Singh said the Centre was making efforts to ensure that the maximum number of students can come out of Ukraine with as less loss as possible.
India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine’s western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the Russian military offensive.
(Manas Dasgupta)
