Updated On: 02 March, 2022 12:45 PM IST | Pune | PTI
'There were around 20,000 students/citizens who were stranded in Ukraine. Of them, 4,000 were brought back to India before February 24. Additional 2,000 students were brought back to India till Tuesday and efforts are on to evacuate the remaining Indians stuck there,' says Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan

An Indian student, evacuated from crisis-hit Ukraine, being welcomed by a relative upon her arrival at the airport . Pic/PTI
Of the 20,000 Indians who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, 6,000 have been brought back to the country so far and the Centre is making all efforts for the safe return of the remaining ones, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday.
He was speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of an event.