Amid Ukraine-Russia Crisis, a second Indian student has been reported dead as he succumbed to a stroke on Wednesday.
Digital Desk: According to reports, a second Indian student in Ukraine died on March 2 in war-torn Ukraine after suffering from a stroke.
According to the reports, the deceased's name was Chandan Jindal, a 22-year-old Punjabi from the Barnala area, enrolled in the Vinnytsia National Pyrogov, Memorial Medical University in Ukraine's Vinnytsia.
Jindal's death has not been linked to the military confrontation, as he has been hospitalised in recent days after suffering an Ischemic stroke. According to sources, he died earlier today at the Vinnytsia Emergency Hospital.
The news broke just one day after an Indian student was killed in a military fire in Kharkiv, where Russian forces began an offensive on March 1. Naveen SG, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka's Haveri district, was confirmed as the victim.
This death has been counted as the second Indian student casualty in Ukraine amid wartime.
Basavaraj Bommai, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, informed the mourning family that the government would do everything necessary to return the deceased's body.
According to the authorities, over 20,000 Indian citizens resided in Ukraine before the start of the war, and nearly 60% of them have gone since the first advisory was issued on March 1.
"Of the remaining 40%, roughly half are still in the fighting zone in Kharkiv, Sumy area, and the other half have either reached the western borders of Ukraine or are on their way there - they are generally out of conflict zones," Foreign Secretary HS Shringla stated.
He stated that no Indians are left in Kyiv, the capital, transforming into a war zone after being bombarded by Russian missiles.
Notably, the Indian government has dispatched four senior Union ministers to Ukraine's neighbouring nations to oversee the evacuation operations: Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju, and V K Singh.
Scindia is in charge of the evacuation activities out of Romania and Moldova, while Rijiju is in Slovakia, Puri in Hungary, and Singh in Poland.
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