"Wonderful Gesture": ISKCON Distributes Food, Water To Indians Returning Home From Ukraine

As tensions escalate in Ukraine, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has opened the temple doors for the people of the war-torn country.

Additionally, the ISKCON members have begun a massive food relief effort in Hungary at the request of the Indian Embassy to provide fresh food and water for the students coming home.

Food relief effort

In the videos and photographs shared on Twitter, the members of ISKCON could be seen distributing fresh food and water for stranded Indian nationals who crossed over from Ukraine to Hungary. Reports said that ISKCON will be expanding this for the Ukrainian refugees coming in very soon.

ISKCON opens doors of its temples across Ukraine

Radharamn Das, the Vice-President of ISKCON, on Saturday said the ISKCON temples all over Ukraine are ready to serve people in need. ¡°Our devotees and temples are committed to serving those in distress. Our temple doors are open for service¡±, Radharamn Das said in a tweet.

ISKCON has over 54 temples in Ukraine & our devotees & temples r committed to serve those in distress. Our doors r open for service. Hare Krishna!

To find nearest temples near you, please visit.https://t.co/iFnZQaPoqG pic.twitter.com/zlUGF84X9f

¡ª Radharamn Das ??????? ??? (@RadharamnDas) February 26, 2022

Radharamn Das said that ISKCON has over 54 temples in Ukraine and added that the devotees and temples are trying to serve others in whatever way they can.

Khalsa Aid provides free langar

This comes a day after Ravinder Singh, the founder of UK-based Sikh charity Khalsa Aid, said Sikh volunteers have been helping students with free langar.

"Guru Ka Langar on a train These guys were fortunate to get on this train which is travelling east of Ukraine to the west (to Polish border ) Hardeep Singh has been providing Langar and assistance to many students from different countries. What a guy," he wrote on Twitter.

#Ukraine: Guru Ka Langar on a train

These guys were fortunate to get on this train which is travelling east of Ukraine to the west (to Polish border )

Hardeep Singh has been providing Langar and assistance to many students from different countries.What a guy#UkraineRussia pic.twitter.com/CyWZnWVePz

¡ª ravinder singh (@RaviSinghKA) February 25, 2022

Ukraine agrees for peace talks

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to start peace talks with Russia, his office said on Sunday. Following a phone call with Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, Zelenskyy¡¯s office said he had agreed to send a delegation to a meeting on the Belarusian-Ukrianian border near the Pripyat river.

The talks would be the first to take place since Russia invaded Ukraine. His office said the talks would be held without preconditions. ¡°We agreed that the Ukrainian delegation would meet with the Russian delegation without preconditions on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, near the Pripyat River,¡± Zelenskyy said in a statement.