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As per the official statement from Indian Air Force four evacuation flights with 798 Indians from the Romanian capital Bucharest, Hungary\u2019s Budapest and Polish city Rzeszow landed at the Hindon airbase today morning.<\/p>\n
Its first flight carrying 200 people from Bucharest landed at 1.30 am. The second flight brought back 210 Indians from Budapest. A little while after the second, the IAF\u2019s third evacuation flight arrived at the airbase from Rzeszow with 208 Indians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fourth flight of the Indian Air Force C-17 from Bucharest landed at the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad at 8:15 am. As many as 180 passengers, mostly students, were on board,\u201d the IAF noted in a statement. All four IAF flights were conducted using C-17 military transport aircraft.<\/p>\n
Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt was present at the tarmac to welcome back the evacuees, the statement noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the IAF is operating three more flights to various locations in the neighbourhood of Ukraine towards the effort,\u201d it mentioned. India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine\u2019s western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the Russian military offensive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IAF C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft have been extensively used for evacuation of stranded citizens of India in the recent past, most notably from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese aeroplanes have also been utilised to transport oxygen containers in large quantities during the COVID-19 outbreak last year,\u201d the IAF mentioned. Four Union ministers have gone to Ukraine\u2019s western neighbours to facilitate the evacuation of Indian nationals. Hardeep Singh Puri is in Hungary, Jyotiraditya Scindia is in Romania, Kiren Rijiju is in Slovakia and V K Singh is in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As per the official statement from Indian Air Force four evacuation flights with 798 Indians from the Romanian capital Bucharest, Hungary\u2019s Budapest and Polish city Rzeszow landed at the Hindon airbase today morning. Its first flight carrying 200 people from Bucharest landed at 1.30 am. The second flight brought back 210 Indians from Budapest. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15213,1865,15214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336084,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336082\/revisions\/336084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}