India is focusing on evacuating its nationals, particularly students, still stuck in Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said after Russian forces mounted a mass assault by land, air, and sea on the former Soviet republic.
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Students in Kyiv have been asked to move towards the western parts of the country - to Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. The students are being evacuated to these nations on foot or by busses and then being put on Air India evacuation flights.
So far 1800-2000 students have been brought back but 12,000 still remain stranded and their evacuation is now the priority.
However due to heavy shelling, evacuations in Kharkiv have not yet started.
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