Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Mar 4: An Indian student has been shot in Kyiv, according to Union Minister VK Singh. He has been hospitalised after being shot.
The incident has occurred days after an Indian student lost his life amid the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
“A student from Kyiv was reported to have been shot and was immediately admitted to the hospital in Kyiv,” said Minister of State (MoS) for Civil Aviation General VK Singh to news agency ANI.
The Indian embassy in Kyiv has already recommended Indians in Ukraine to leave the war-torn country. “The pistol bullet does not look at anyone’s religion or nationality in the case of conflict,” VK Singh added.
VK Singh is one of four Union ministers who came to Eastern Europe earlier this week to supervise the Ukrainian evacuation exercise. The other three “special envoys” are Hardeep Singh Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Kiren Rijiju, who are currently in Ukraine’s neighbouring countries to arrange the evacuation of Indian nationals still trapped in the war-torn country.
A medical student from Karnataka’s Haveri district was killed amid fierce shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, (March 1) becoming the first Indian fatality of the war in Ukraine. Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a fourth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University, was one of the victims.
Following the incident, India requested that both Russia and Ukraine’s envoys facilitate “immediate safe transit” for Indian citizens remained in Kharkiv and other combat zones. On Thursday, the Indian embassy issued urgent instructions to citizens to leave Kharkiv and travel to one of three designated safe zones.
