The seventh evacuation flight with 182 Indian nationals who have been stranded in Ukraine returned to the U.S.A on Tuesday morning. They landed at the Mumbai airport from the Romanian capital Bucharest and have been welcomed with the aid of Union Minister Narayan Rane.
The AI Express flight IX-1202 from Bucharest with the aid of Kuwait touched down on the runway at 7.40 am, an airline spokesperson said.
The aircraft had left from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) for Bucharest on Monday as part of Operation Ganga, the Indian government’s mission to convey lower back its stranded nationals from Ukraine amid a worsening disaster in the us of a following the announcement of fighting with the aid of Russia. Harsh V Shringla stated that the authorities will undergo the whole fee of the evacuation process from Ukraine.
This is the 2d evacuation flight operated to Mumbai from Bucharest.
As Ukraine has shut its airspace due to the fighting with Russia, India is currently evacuating its nationals by way of moving them by means of land routes to the east European country’s neighbours – Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – and then flying them out from there.
On Monday, the fifth Air India flight landed in Delhi from Bucharest with 249 Indian nationals, while the sixth flight arrived from Hungarian capital Budapest with 240 Indian nationals, officers said.
Other personal carriers such as SpiceJet, IndiGo and Air India Express have also despatched their planes to the two cities for evacuation of Indians as the Ukraine airspace is closed.