Russia-Ukraine War LIVE Updates: Gujarat CM welcomes students on return from Ukraine
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today (February 28) morning welcomed 27 students hailing from the state who reached Gandhinagar in a bus from Delhi where they had landed after evacuation from Ukraine by a special flight. In the last two days, around 100 students studying in war-torn Ukraine have reached their home state Gujarat from Mumbai and Delhi.
Patel welcomed the youths with flowers and asked about their well-being. The students had reached the Gandhinagar circuit house from Delhi by the Volvo bus around Sunday midnight.
Meanwhile, blasts have been heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and in the major city of Kharkiv on Monday (February 28) morning, Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection said. In a separate statement, the agency also informed that a residential building in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine was on fire after being struck by a missile.
Earlier today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talked to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the current security situation and told him that he believes the next 24 hours was a crucial period for Ukraine.
The remarks came hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert in response to what he called ‘aggressive statements’ by leading NATO powers. The order meant that Putin wants Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch and raises the threat that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response to it could boil over into nuclear warfare.
