<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked senior officials to do whatever they could in order to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, who hailed from Karnataka, but was killed in Kharkiv in war-torn Ukraine on March 1.</p>.<p>Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Security. The Prime Minister and other senior ministers were briefed by Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla about “Operation Ganga”, which India had launched to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine after Russia launched “special military operations” in the East European nation.</p>.<p>Shringla also briefed the Prime Minister and others about the latest developments in Ukraine.</p>.<p>The Prime Minister directed that all possible efforts should be made to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa, who had died in Kharkiv, according to an official press release.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/pm-modi-chairs-high-level-meeting-to-review-security-preparedness-1090855.html">PM Modi chairs high-level meeting to review security preparedness</a></strong></p>.<p>Naveen, a fourth-year student of Kharkiv National Medical University, had on March 1 gone out to buy food and had been waiting in a queue in front of a grocery store, when he had been killed, purportedly due to shelling targeting a building at the central square of Kharkiv. The city had been under attack from Russian Armed Forces, which had launched military operations in Ukraine on February 24.</p>.<p>The 21-year-old had gone from Chalageri in Haveri in Karnataka to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.</p>.<p>His body was taken from the scene of explosion to Kharkiv National Medical University hospital, was subsequently embalmed and kept at the mortuary.</p>.<p>India did later manage to evacuate its citizens – mostly students – from the war zones in Kharkiv and other places in eastern Ukraine. The continued war between the advancing Russian Army and the resisting Ukrainian Army, however, made it difficult for the government to make arrangements for repatriation of the mortal remains of Naveen.</p>.<p>The Ukrainian Army accused the Russian Army on Sunday of launching as many as 50 aerial attacks in the residential areas in and around Kharkiv over the past 24 hours.</p>.<p>Moscow promised to share with Delhi the findings of the investigation, which it was keen to conduct into the death of Naveen.</p>.<p>“(The) Russian Armed Forces do not target civilians,” Roman Babushkin, the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Russian Federation in New Delhi, told DH during a recent interview. “It is a very unfortunate incident. We are not sure about the circumstances that caused this tragedy.” He also said that Russia would be interested in conducting an investigation into the incident and would be sharing its findings with India.</p>.<p>“If it was a shelling, videos which went viral clearly show that a missile came from the western side,” said Babushkin.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked senior officials to do whatever they could in order to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, who hailed from Karnataka, but was killed in Kharkiv in war-torn Ukraine on March 1.</p>.<p>Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Security. The Prime Minister and other senior ministers were briefed by Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla about “Operation Ganga”, which India had launched to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine after Russia launched “special military operations” in the East European nation.</p>.<p>Shringla also briefed the Prime Minister and others about the latest developments in Ukraine.</p>.<p>The Prime Minister directed that all possible efforts should be made to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa, who had died in Kharkiv, according to an official press release.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/pm-modi-chairs-high-level-meeting-to-review-security-preparedness-1090855.html">PM Modi chairs high-level meeting to review security preparedness</a></strong></p>.<p>Naveen, a fourth-year student of Kharkiv National Medical University, had on March 1 gone out to buy food and had been waiting in a queue in front of a grocery store, when he had been killed, purportedly due to shelling targeting a building at the central square of Kharkiv. The city had been under attack from Russian Armed Forces, which had launched military operations in Ukraine on February 24.</p>.<p>The 21-year-old had gone from Chalageri in Haveri in Karnataka to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.</p>.<p>His body was taken from the scene of explosion to Kharkiv National Medical University hospital, was subsequently embalmed and kept at the mortuary.</p>.<p>India did later manage to evacuate its citizens – mostly students – from the war zones in Kharkiv and other places in eastern Ukraine. The continued war between the advancing Russian Army and the resisting Ukrainian Army, however, made it difficult for the government to make arrangements for repatriation of the mortal remains of Naveen.</p>.<p>The Ukrainian Army accused the Russian Army on Sunday of launching as many as 50 aerial attacks in the residential areas in and around Kharkiv over the past 24 hours.</p>.<p>Moscow promised to share with Delhi the findings of the investigation, which it was keen to conduct into the death of Naveen.</p>.<p>“(The) Russian Armed Forces do not target civilians,” Roman Babushkin, the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Russian Federation in New Delhi, told DH during a recent interview. “It is a very unfortunate incident. We are not sure about the circumstances that caused this tragedy.” He also said that Russia would be interested in conducting an investigation into the incident and would be sharing its findings with India.</p>.<p>“If it was a shelling, videos which went viral clearly show that a missile came from the western side,” said Babushkin.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
