India on Saturday began the evacuation of its citizens who have been stranded amid the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, with Air India operating two flights to the Romanian capital Bucharest and one service to the Hungarian capital Budapest.
While one flight AI1944 returned from Bucharest to the Mumbai airport with 219 Indians on Saturday evening, the other two flights – AI1942 from Bucharest and AI1940 from Budapest – are scheduled to arrive with rescued citizens in Delhi on Sunday morning, senior government officials said.
External Affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar tweeted, “#OperationGanga continues. The second flight from Bucharest has taken off for Delhi with 250 Indian nationals.”
