No student taken hostage, but many still stuck: Govt

Following advice from the Russians, about 1,000 Indian students had left warravaged Kharkiv and camped in a school 12 km away in Pisochyn, the government said on Thursday.

New Delhi: While efforts were on to take them by buses to the western or southern border of Ukraine, the MEA said a “few hundreds’’ were still stranded in Kharkiv and Sumy.

The government also denied that any Indian student had been taken hostage following claims by both Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of holding Indians hostage.