Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai reached out to Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar and has been assured that the situation in Ukraine is being monitored closely.
Mr. Bommai said that officials of Karnataka are in constant touch with the Indian embassy in Ukraine, which has provided information about Indian students stuck in that country.
He told reporters, “I have spoken to the Union External Affairs Minister in the morning (February 25). The Union Government is doing everything possible to bring back the stranded Indians safely. The possibility of evacuating them to safety through land routes is being explored as air services have been hit by the war with Russia. There is information about the possibility of secure transit towards the western part of Ukraine. The Indian embassy in Ukraine is in touch with stranded Indian students.
