Watch: Minister VK Singh Assures Injured Indian Student Before Evacuation

New Delhi: Harjot Singh, Indian students who were shot in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv, met the General VK Singh Union Minister at the airport in Poland from where he would be flown to India on a special aircraft as part of the government evacuation program “Ganga Operation”.

General Singh was seen talking to a 31-year-old student, who was on a stretcher, at the airport in Rzeszow.

“Let me convince the state that he is in good hands. The worst is behind him. I hope to see him reunite with his family. May he recover well and fast,” Minister wrote in Koo, Koo.

Flight Harjot Singh is expected to land on the Hindon air base near Delhi at 7pm. He was one of 200 Indians who were brought back from Poland, one of the countries sharing the border with Ukraine.

“Harjot Singh has crossed the border and entered Poland. Indian diplomats attended him. He has shifted to the ambulance provided by Poland Redcross on the border,” Puneet Singh Chandhok, President, Indian World Forum, quoted by the Ani news agency.

General VK Singh, who oversees the operation of evacuation in Poland, is also expected to take flight.

The Minister, who is one of the four ministers sent as a special envoy to neighboring countries Ukraine, has told the arrival of Harjot Singh with a tweet on Sunday.

“Harjot Singh was an Indian who was shot during the war in Kyiv. His passport was also lost in chaos. Nice to notify that the harjot reached India with us tomorrow. Hopefully there is a quick recovery with food and home care,” Tweet the Minister read.

Harjot Singh, 31, was shot while trying to leave Kyiv for Lviv last month. He was hit several times and his leg was broken. “The bullet came from my shoulder. They took out bullets from my chest … My legs were broken,” said Harjot Singh to NDTV from Kyiv City Hospital.

Speaking to Ani, he also claimed that he did not receive assistance from the Indian Embassy. “There is no support from the Indian Embassy. I have tried to contact them, every day they say we will do something but it hasn’t helped,” he was quoted as saying by Ani.

India began the “last leg” operation of the Ganga evacuation mission on Sunday and asked students to be stranded and live in their own accommodation, to reach the Hungarian capital Budapest.

“An important announcement: Indian Embassy started his last flight,” he said.