An Air India Categorical flight from the Hungarian capital Budapest carrying 183 Indian nationals stranded in war-torn Ukraine landed in Mumbai on Saturday morning, the airline mentioned. Air India flight IX 1604 with 182 passengers and one toddler landed at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Worldwide Airport at 11 am, an airline spokesperson mentioned.
Tata group-owned Air India and its subsidiary Air India Categorical collectively have operated six evacuation flights from Bucharest in Romania and Budapest to Mumbai since February 26, carrying as many as 1,134 Indians from Ukraine.
India has been evacuating its residents by means of particular flights from Ukraine’s western neighbours equivalent to Romania, Hungary and Poland as a result of closure of Ukrainian airspace since February 24.
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