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Maroosha Muzaffar

Indian students remain ‘hostage’ in Kharkiv, says Vladimir Putin despite New Delhi’s denial

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Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a large number of Indian students continued to remain hostage in a train station at Kharkiv in Ukraine, despite the Indian government’s denial.

“They are taking hostage foreign citizens, including thousands of students who went to college in Ukraine. For more than one day at a train station in Kharkiv, 3,179 Indian citizens were held, prisoner,” Mr Putin said during his speech at Russia’s security council.

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