New Delhi - Dozens of parents, relatives and friends of Indian students stranded in Ukraine held a protest near the Russian Embassy in New Delhi to demand the students’ immediate evacuation.

Police barricaded the roads to the embassy on Friday and asked the protesters to meet Indian Foreign Ministry officials to discuss the repatriation of nearly 16,000 Indians, including students.

Some of the relatives spoke to their loved ones stuck in metro trains and bomb shelters in Kyiv, through video conferencing calls.

One of the callers in Ukraine is reported to have said that they are running low on food and water in a crowded bunker.

Indian Embassy officials are now traveling to border areas of Ukraine touching Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary to facilitate the exit of Indian nationals so that they can be evacuated to India, said foreign ministry official Harsh Vardhan Shringla.
-AP