Nearly 600 more Vietnamese fleeing Ukraine repatriated
Nearly 600 Vietnamese people fleeing from war-torn Ukraine to Poland and Romania were safely returned home by two Vietnam Airlines flights on March 13, bringing the total number of Vietnamese in Ukraine repatriated so far to over 1,100.
Vietnamese in Ukraine arrive in Hanoi after a long flight (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 600 Vietnamese people fleeingfrom war-torn Ukraine to Poland and Romania were safely returned home by twoVietnam Airlines flights on March 13, bringing the total number of Vietnamese in Ukraine repatriated so far to over 1,100.
They are the first two repatriation flights operated underan agreement between national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and Sun Group inwhich the later covers the entire cost for the arrangement of the flights.
The flight from Poland’s Warsaw with 288 passengers on boardarrived at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport at 9:30am. The other from Romania’sBucharest landed at the airport at 11:00am, carrying 291 people. Many of thepassengers were children aged under 18, the elderly and pregnant women.
The Vietnamese embassies in Poland and Romania cooperatedwith Vietnamese associations in those countries to help the evacuees travel to the airports andcomplete pre-departure procedures.
The first two repatriated flights, funded by the State, brought back to Vietnam 287 people on March 8 and 300 others on March 10.
As of 4:00pm on March 12, more than 4,500 Vietnamese peoplehad been evacuated from Ukraine to neighbouring countries. They included some950 to Romania, 2,800 to Poland, 660 to Hungary, nearly 130 to Slovakia andover 40 to Russia.
The Vietnamese missions are busy cooperating with localauthorities and multiple Vietnamese associations to arrange travel and temporaryaccommodations and provide food for the evacuees and help them resolve paperissues and fulfill required legal steps to prepare for the next flights home.
On March 12, another 23 Vietnamese expats leaving Ukrainewere flown home from Russia. They were provided with support from the Embassyof Vietnam in Russia to flee to the Russian cities of Voronhez and Rostove onDon earlier this month.
At the direction of Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach, the Vietnamese Honorary Consular Office in Odessa has worked with Ukraine authorities and got their permission to release two Vietnamese detained for illegal migration from a detention centre located in Nhikolaiev province near Kherson, where fierce fighting is takingplace. The two were taken to LangSen, Odessa and will be arranged to travel to a third country before boarding a flight toVietnam./.
A Bamboo Airways flight carrying 300 Vietnamese people evacuated from war zones in Ukraine to Poland safely arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi in the early morning of March 10.
Sun Group and Vietnam Airlines on March 10 signed a cooperation agreement on supporting the repatriation of Vietnamese people and their family members from war areas in Ukraine back home.
Vietnam's representative agencies and associations of Vietnamese in Romania are making efforts to prepare for a March 12 flight bringing citizens who had to flee from Ukraine home, the Embassy of Vietnam in the country has announced.
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Vietnamese in Ukraine arrive in Hanoi after a long flight (Photo: VNA) 
