For Russian claims that Indian students were held hostage by the Ukrainian authorities in Kharkiv, the government on Thursday said it did not have that information. Ukraine also accused that Indians were held hostage by Russian forces.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that he had not received a report on the situation of the hostage on any student in Ukraine after the Russian Embassy in India claimed that Indian students were detained as hostages in Ukraine. The official spokesman for the Ministry, Arinindam Bagchi said the Indian Embassy in Ukraine was having continuously related to Indian citizens in Ukraine. “We note that with the collaboration of Ukrainian authorities, many students have left Kharkiv yesterday. We have not received a report about any hostage situation about any student. We have requested support from the Ukrainian authority in managing special trains to take Kharkiv students and neighboring areas to the part West of the country, “said the MEA statement.
“We have coordinated effectively with countries in the region including Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova. A large number of Indian citizens have been evacuated from Ukraine in the past few days. We appreciate the assistance expanded by Ukraine authorities for Allows this. We thank the Western neighbors of Ukraine in accepting Indian citizens and to accommodate them when they wait for flights to take them back home, “said the Ministry clarified Russian claim.
The Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday claimed the Ukrainian authorities forcibly made a large group of Indian students who want to leave Kharkiv and go to Belgorod. “In fact, they were detained as hostages and offered to leave the Ukrainian region through the Ukrainian-Polish border. They offered to go through the area where active hostility occurred,” the Russian defense ministry claim.
Russia also said the armed forces were ready to help India for evacuation of safe Indians by taking them to the Russian region too.
Ukraine, on the other hand, claims that foreign nationals are taken hostage by Russian forces in Kharkiv. “We immediately called the Indian Government, Pakistan, China and other districts whose students were hostages from Russian armed aggression in Kharkiv and Sumy, to sue Moscow that he enabled the opening of the human corridor to other Ukrainian cities,” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ukraine said .
This development came when India took steps measured to react to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, abstained from UNGA resolution to Russia had not called for a direct ceasefire.