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Sri Lanka Navy connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) said 8 overseas vessels, including 2 from India, person been honoured for providing assistance to the land federation aft the Cyclone Ditwah catastrophe that saw implicit 600 deaths.
Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya personally expressed gratitude to a radical of diplomatic officials of the countries concerned, Sri Lanka Navy spokesperson Commander Sampath said successful Colombo.
Widespread flooding, landslides and terrible infrastructure illness crossed the land federation severely strained the country's disaster-response capableness successful the aftermath of the Cyclone Ditwah that deed Sri Lanka successful November past week.
Aircraft bearer INS Vikrant and different vessel INS Udaygiri of the Indian Navy were the archetypal to get progressive successful the rescue and alleviation operations.
Sting successful the tail: connected Cyclone Ditwah, its impact
When Ditwah made a landfall connected November 27, 8 overseas naval warships had arrived present to instrumentality portion successful the International Fleet Review 2025 to people the 75th day of the Sri Lanka Navy.
Highlighting the tone of planetary and determination cooperation, the Sri Lanka Navy had acknowledged — successful the contiguous aftermath of the catastrophe — the “invaluable enactment by overseas warships, extending much-needed Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations, during the caller upwind catastrophe successful Sri Lanka,” a merchandise said.
“Due to the disaster-situation triggered by terrible upwind conditions crossed the island, overseas warships that arrived for the lawsuit were promptly redirected to enactment humanitarian efforts. Particularly, helicopters deployed from the Indian Navy’s craft bearer INS Vikrant,” it added.
India’s alleviation and assistance ngo – Operation Sagar Bandhu – commenced connected the precise time that Cyclone Ditwah made landfall. INS Vikrant and INS Udayagiri delivered alleviation material.
Operation Sagar Bandhu delivered implicit 1,100 tonnes of alleviation material, including adust rations, tents, tarpaulins, hygiene kits, indispensable covering and h2o purification kits.
About 14.5 tons of medicines and aesculapian instrumentality were besides provided. Yet different 60 tons of instrumentality was brought to Sri Lanka to assistance the alleviation operations.
Several Mi-17 helicopters of the Indian Air Force were progressive for a play of much than 2 weeks successful Sri Lanka.
As of January 1, arsenic galore arsenic 644 radical person died and 175 are inactive missing since November 16, arsenic landslides, floods and rainfall caused wide destruction, information from the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) successful Colombo showed.
India connected December 23, 2025 announced a reconstruction bundle of $450 cardinal for Sri Lanka, arsenic External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met with the land nation's apical leaders and assured Delhi's steadfast committedness to Colombo's rebuilding post-cyclone.
The assistance bundle volition see $350 cardinal successful concessional Lines of Credit and $100 cardinal of grants.
