Twelve students from Karnataka, who were stranded in Ukraine, landed in Mumbai on Saturday and will reach Bengaluru at 8.50 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 27). In another evacuation operation by the Indian embassy in Kyiv, five students from Karnataka will arrive in New Delhi at 7.45 a.m. by an Air India flight from Budapest. The Karnataka Government has opened a facilitation centre at IGI Airport in New Delhi to coordinate and support students from Karnataka who have been evacuated.
As many as 387 people from Karnataka are currently trapped in war-torn Ukraine as per data provided by the Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) on Saturday evening. Of these, 127 are from Bengaluru Urban, 28 from Mysuru, 23 from Bagalkot, 16 from Tumakuru and the rest from other districts.
Though there were reports of people from the State stranded in Ukraine unable to access the web portal launched by KSDMA, officials said that they received the maximum number of submissions on Friday.
