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economy which is struggling to take-off after three phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the
12th day of Russia and Ukraine conflict, oil prices have soared to $135 per barrel, fuelling
further the inflation in the war torn world. Apart from the global economic alarms, a key
Russia Ukraine war impact on India is that the thousands of Indian students are stuck in
Ukraine and are facing hardships in evacuation process as they find it very difficult to reach
the Poland or Romania borders which are many miles away in the shadow of bombs, bullets
and missiles.
The Russia Ukraine war primarily involves Russia and pro-Russian forces on one side,
and the small country of Ukraine on the other. The Ukraine intervention is directly
challenging the US and NATO. Russia has made it clear in its communication that any
attempt to bring Ukraine into the NATO fold will have consequences.
In 2021 and early 2022, there was a major Russian Military build up around Ukraine's
borders. NATO accused Russia of planning an invasion, which it denied. Russian president
Putin criticized the enlargement of NATO as a threat to his country and demanded Ukraine
be barred from ever joining the military alliance. He also claimed that Ukraine was a
historic mistake created by the Soviet Union. On 21 February 2022, Russia officially
recognised the two self proclaimed states in the Donbas, and sent troops to the territories.
Three days later, Russia launched a full scale war against Ukraine.
Russian Ukraine Conflict has been seen as a serious breach of international treaties and a
violation of a sovereign country. Russia believes Ukraine was an artificial creation of the
Bolsheviks after Brest Litovsk in 1917 and “never had a tradition of genuine statehood”.
Despite a spree of sanctions announced by USA and other western countries, Russia is
unlikely to stop the advancement. The West is unable to activate serious measures as it
risks an asymmetric response, a lighter variant of ‘mutual assured destruction’ from the
Cold War.
Post the implosion of the erstwhile USSR in 1991, the cold war era came to an end as most
of the Warsaw Pact countries, having become independent countries, joined NATO. The US
and its NATO allies are unable to find a concrete solution of the Russian intervention and
Ukraine is left to fight against the many size bigger Russia. Europe has witnessed the cold
war and with Russian Ukraine Crisis getting deeper, it wouldn’t want to be caught in this
imbroglio.
A few days ago, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had flagged concerns over the after
effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said that never has global peace faced challenges
of this significance since World War-II. "India's development is going to be challenged by
the newer challenges emanating in the world. Peace is being threatened and after the
Second World War, (a) war of this significance, this impact, on the globe probably is not
felt," Sitharaman had said. The finance minister had assured that the government is closely
monitoring the situation in Ukraine.
Out of the 21000+ Indians who have come out of Ukraine, more than 20,000 have reached
India under ‘Operation Ganga’ – the Government of India programme to evacuate the
Indians stuck in Ukraine. However, the most difficult part for the stuck Indians is reach the
Ukranian border as they do not find good means of conveyance from the bunkers in Ukraine
where they are hiding due to the War, to the border. However, the Prime Minister of India,
Shri Narendra Modi has announced that all out efforts would be made to evacuate even the
last Indian in Ukraine under Operation Ganga. So far more than 80 flights have brought back
thousands of Indians back home