Jaishankar to issue statement on Ukraine in Parliament tomorrow

New Delhi, Mar 14: The Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, is scheduled to issue a statement about Ukraine in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha tomorrow, Tuesday, March 15.

On Monday, the government assured the Lok Sabha it will look into measures that can be taken so Indian students brought back to the country from Ukraine under Operation Ganga can complete their education.

Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan also said that Operation Ganga, carried out under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to evacuate Indian students from Ukraine, is proof of the "collective wisdom of 130 crore Indians".

The Opposition had hit out at the government over the "delay" in rescuing the students caught in the war zone and criticised the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for issuing "vague" advisories.

India had been making efforts to evacuate its citizens from the northeastern Ukrainian city, but was facing the challenge of heavy shelling and air strikes.

India has brought back over 17,100 of its nationals from Ukraine so far.

The MEA had set up camp offices in Lviv and Chernivtsi towns in western Ukraine to facilitate transit of Indians to Hungary, Romania and Poland.