NEW DELHI: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting to review India's security preparedness and the prevailing global scenario in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
External affairs minister
S Jaishankar, finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman, defence minister
Rajnath Singh attended the meeting.
NSA Ajit Doval and other senior officials also attended the meeting.
During the meeting, he was briefed on latest developments and different aspects of India’s security preparedness in the border areas as well as in the maritime and air domain.
PM Modi was also briefed on the latest developments in Ukraine, including the details of Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals, along with some citizens of India’s neighbouring countries, from Ukraine.
PM Modi, during the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, today directed that all possible efforts should be made to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa, who died in Kharkiv.
India has brought back around 20,000 Indians under 'Operation Ganga' which was launched on February 26, two days after Russia began its military offensive on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the United Nations estimates that almost 2.6 million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion, most of them to Poland, in Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
In a video address posted on social media late Saturday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky was adamant that the Russians would not take Ukraine.
"The Russian invaders cannot conquer us. They do not have such strength. They do not have such spirit. They are holding only on violence. Only on terror. Only on weapons, which they have a lot," he said.
(With agency inputs)