Emergency medicines, blankets & tents among relief aid dispatched to Ukraine
India has already sent 2 tonnes of medicines to the war-hit country via Poland on Wednesday. The consignment includes essential medicines like Azythromycin, dexamethasone etc
India has decided to send humanitarian relief to Ukraine on the Volodymyr Zelenskyy regime's request, amid an intense evacuation efforts to bring back Indians stranded in the war torn country.
Relief materials ready to be airlifted to Ukraine
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The Hindustan Times has accessed exclusive details on what relief materials will be sent by the government of India to Kyiv and other cities.
India has already sent 2 tonnes of medicines to the war-hit country via Poland on Wednesday. The consignment includes essential medicines like Azythromycin, dexamethasone etc.
Indian government is also sending relief materials like blankets, tents, sleeping mats, solar lamps, kits for men and women enclosed in 514 packets to Ukraine via Poland.
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The fourth consignment includes 100 tents and 2,500 blankets which will be delivered to Ukraine via Romania.
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The fourth consignment includes 100 tents and 2,500 blankets which will be delivered to Ukraine via Romania.
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Hindustan Times has learnt that 167 additional blankets, 190 family ridge tents, 500 solar lamps, 4,000 safety goggles, 500 pairs of surgical gloves are among the essentials already packed for shipment.
The decision to send humanitarian relief and medicines was taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an emergency meeting on Monday. The Indian Air Force's C17 aircraft have been deployed to send humanitarian aid.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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