Over 12,000 Indians have left Ukraine since the first advisory was issued on February 15, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said. “We had around 20,000 Indian students in Ukraine at the time that we issued our first advisory. From that number, about 12,000 have since left Ukraine, which is 60 per cent of the total number of Indian citizens in Ukraine,” Shringla said in a press briefing.

“Of the remaining 40 per cent, half are in the conflict zone in Kharkiv, Sumy area and the other half have either reached the western borders of Ukraine or are heading towards the western part of Ukraine. All Indian nationals have left Kyiv. We have no more Indians left in Kyiv; nobody has contacted us from Kyiv since. All our inquiries say that every one of our nationals has come out of Kyiv,” he added.

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Earlier in the day, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed the death of an Indian student, Naveen Shekhararappa Gyanagoudar, in the military shelling in Kharkiv. “With deep sorrow, we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv. The Ministry is in touch with his family. We convey our deepest condolences to the family,” MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi had said.