INDIA’S RESCUE OPERATIONS OVERSEAS
- March 2, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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INDIA’S RESCUE OPERATIONS OVERSEAS
TOPIC: IR
Context- For India, the Russia-Ukraine war has unfolded a crisis in the form of thousands of stranded citizens, particularly students, who are stuck in the conflict zone. Within hours, response teams of the MEA and other ministries were in place with top officials coordinating Operation Ganga in New Delhi.
Concept-
About Ukraine:
- Ukraine is in the east of Europe, and is bound by Russia to its northeast, east, and southeast, and the Black Sea in the south. In the southwest, west, and north.
- Ukraine shares borders, in the clockwise direction, with Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus.
- It is the largest country in Europe after Russia itself, with an area of 603,550 sq km, or about 6% of the continent.
Earlier Rescue Missions of India:
- In early 2020, India kickstarted one of the world’s largest air-lift exercises under the Vande Bharat Mission covering 100 nations.
- A total of over 88,000 flights brought back around 70 lakh Indians stranded abroad due to the global lockdown, following the coronavirus outbreak.
- Operation Sankat Mochan in 2014 when 46 Indian nurses were rescued from the clutches of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in war-ravaged Iraq.
- Operation Raahat of April 2015 when the Indian Navy and Air Force rescued over 4,600 Indians and over 950 nationals of 41 countries from Yemen during the military intervention by Saudi Arabia and its allies.