PM holds another CCS meet on Ukraine crisis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today convened a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) at which he declared that India would accord top priority to the safety and security of Indian nationals, including students, stranded in Ukraine.
India, he said, was concerned about the welfare of the stranded Indians and would leave no stone unturned to bring them back to their homeland.
This was the second meeting of the CCS since Russia invaded Ukraine.
According to Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, the PM directed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to ensure in coordination with other ministries that the Indians stranded in Ukraine or neighbouring countries were provided food and shelter.
Modi is scheduled to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin again while External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will speak to his counterparts in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.
Shringla did not agree with a suggestion that India had delayed the exercise to evacuate its nationals from the war-torn country. He said the MEA has set up a control room on the Ukraine crisis. The situation was being monitored on a 24×7 basis.
