The government on Monday decided to send four Union ministers to the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinate the evacuation process of thousands of Indians, including students, still stranded in the war-hit country. Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and VK Singh will be going as “special envoys” of India, government sources said, even as Air India planes continued to bring students back home.

Scindia will take care of evacuation efforts from Romania and Moldova while Rijiju will go to Slovakia. The sources said that Puri will go to Hungary while Singh will be in Poland to manage the evacuation. Evacuation trains have been arranged by Ukraine and students are advised to report at the railway station in Kyiv to be shifted to the country’s western areas, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine tweeted on Monday. But students said Ukrainian guards were not allowing them to board trains and also beating up people.