at the city 150 millimeters drive distance from sumy city and they are waiting there on standby. they are hoping for a local cease-fire to happen and that is what the officials told the media on saturday when they held a press conference saying they have spoken to both sides, russia and ukraine. they're hoping for the local cease-fire to take place to get our people out of there. as of now, over 20,000 indian na nationals have left ukraine and evacuated and they are now on their way back to india. but this situation is still developing at the moment, isa. >> okay. vedika, give me a sense. obviously we don't know how long they will be there. if we're waiting for the cease-fire, russia and both sides don't seem to have agreed on the cease-fire. they have broken it over the weekend twice now. what are the chance that's they have to be there for much longer? what is the embassy telling you? >> reporter: well, the chances of them really surviving through