Goa student returns home from war-torn Ukraine

Mumbai: An Air India Express flight IX-1202 with 182 Indians, mostly students, stranded in war-hit Ukraine arrived here from Bucharest, Romania, as part of Operation Ganga airlift on Tuesday, March 01, 2022.

Panaji, (Samajweekly) Rupal Gosavi, a Goan student caught in war-torn Ukraine, arrived at Goa’s Dabolim international airport on Tuesday.

Gosavi, who was studying at the Ternopil National Medical University in Ternopil, Ukraine, had reached New Delhi earlier on Tuesday via a rescue flight from Romania.

“We were contacted by the Indian Embassy in Ukraine and assured safe passage,” Gosavi told reporters at the Goa airport.

Gosavi was received at the airport by state Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho.

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