The Ministry of External Affairs has decided to withdraw the families of Indian diplomats in Ukraine even as in a fresh advisory the Indian Embassy in Kyiv asked Indian nationals to leave the country temporarily if their stay is not essential.
The advisory came following rising tensions between the NATO countries and Russia over the Ukraine crisis.“In view of the continued high levels of tensions and uncertainties with respect to the situation in Ukraine, all Indian nationals whose stay is not deemed essential and all Indian students, are advised to leave Ukraine temporarily,” the embassy said.Meanwhile, India has rejected suggestions regarding a parallel between China’s belligerence in the Indo-Pacific region and Russia’s military build-up around Ukraine.“I don’t think the situations in the Indo-Pacific and transatlantic are really analogous. Certainly the assumption in your question that somehow there is a trade-off and one country does it in the Pacific and so in return you do something else, I don’t think that’s the way international relations work,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. He was asked if the Government of India maintained that different principles should apply in different parts of the world.
