{"id":113047,"date":"2022-03-04T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=113047"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:31:41","slug":"mea-denies-russia-stopped-war-for-6-hours-at-indias-behest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mea-denies-russia-stopped-war-for-6-hours-at-indias-behest\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA denies Russia “stopped war for 6 hours” at India’s behest"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 2, the Indian Embassy issued an urgent advisory<\/a> for all Indian nationals stuck in Ukraine. The advisory urged citizens to leave Kharkiv immediately and reach Pesochin, Babaye and Bezlyuvdovka by 6 pm.<\/p>\n

Soon after, Nitin A Gokhale, whose Twitter bio states that he is a national security analyst, tweeted<\/a> that Russia “apparently agreed” to a six-hour window for allowing safe passage to all Indians in Kharkiv before an all-out assault.<\/p>\n

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“Indian government requested for a window, a safe window, during the constant negotiations. And the Russians apparently agreed for a six-hour window saying we will allow Indians to leave. Either they come through a train or other means of transportation…[sic],” Gokhale said<\/a> while speaking to a media outlet.<\/p>\n

A couple of hours after his claim, BJP Maharashtra<\/a> amplified it while hailing Prime Minister Modi.<\/p>\n

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Quite expectedly, several journalists and ‘defence panellists’ tweeted the same while gushing about the BJP-led central government. Among them were Aditya Raj Kaul, Amish Devgn, Abhijit Majumdar<\/a>, Pradeep Bhandari<\/a> and Abhijit Iyer Mitra<\/a>.<\/p>\n