Op Ganga: 6 more flights depart for India with 1,377 Indians

New Delhi: Six flights have departed for India in the last 24 hours, carrying back 1,377 more Indian nationals from war-hit Ukraine as part of Operation Ganga, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.

In a tweet, he said that the flights include the first flights from Poland, besides the other ones from Bucharest and Budapest. “#OperationGanga developments. Six flights have now departed for India in the last 24 hours. Includes the first flights from Poland. Carried back 1377 more Indian nationals from Ukraine.”

On Tuesday evening, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had said that over the next three days, 26 flights have been scheduled to bring out Indian citizens, and that airports in Poland and the Slovak Republic are also being used.

A C-17 Globemaster of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is also to fly out to Romania to repatriate Indian citizens. (UNI)