PM Modi chairs high-level meeting on Russia-Ukraine situation, third in 24 hours

New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi on Monday chaired a high-level meeting on the Ukraine situation. This is the third such meeting held by the PM in the last 24 hours.

Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and V K Singh, along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and other top bureaucrats were present at the meeting.

During a meeting on Sunday, it was decided that the four Union ministers will travel to Ukraine’s neighbouring nations as India's special envoys to coordinate evacuation operations.

Hardeep Puri will be sent to Hungary while VK Singh will be in Poland.



Jyotiraditya Scindia will take care of evacuation efforts from Romania and Moldova, while Kiren Rijiju will go to Slovakia to manage the evacuation of Indians who have come from Ukraine through land borders.

Earlier, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla in a briefing asserted that India has managed to accelerate its efforts to get its nationals out of Ukraine. The MEA said a total of 1,396 Indians were brought back in six flights as part of the evacuation mission.

A large number of Indians, mostly students, are stranded in Ukraine following Russia's attack on the country. India has begun evacuating them, and over 900 people have been brought back since Saturday.