Air India flight carrying students evacuated from Ukrainian city Sumy lands in Delhi

NEW DELHI: An Air India flight from

Poland

's Rzeszow carrying students evacuated from northeastern

Ukrainian city Sumy

, landed in Delhi on Friday morning, officials said.

The flight had taken off from Rzeszow around 11.30 pm (IST) on Thursday and landed in Delhi at 5.45 am on Friday, they said.

India has sent three flights to Poland to bring back 600 students evacuated from Sumy.

Another flight is expected to land in Delhi around 8.40 am, officials said.

According to the details shared by the students with PTI, the first flight was for first, second and third-year students.

The second flight is for fourth and fifth-year students and the third is for those with pets, fifth and sixth-year students and for any other who may have been left behind, they said.

The Indian government is carrying out a challenging evacuation exercise under

Operation Ganga

to help stranded Indians leave

Ukraine

.

The operation to evacuate the 600 students from Sumy began on Tuesday morning.

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