A medical student from Ecuador assures that people of other nationalities are leaving the country, while they do not know how to act.
On the morning of this February 24, 2022, a few hours from Russian attack on UkraineTHE HOUR communicated with jean andradea man from Quito who has lived for five years in Zaporizhzhia, a city located 200 kilometers from the conflict zone.
He’s worried because he can’t get out of Ukraine. He assured that he has not received help from the Ecuadorian State. His family, in Ecuador, does not know what to do. Andrade is one of 128 Ecuadorians who live in this border city that has key companies in a war: the largest hydroelectric plant in the country and a major nuclear power plant. There are students who have panicked, he said Andrade.
“People from India, from Morocco are already leaving Ukraine on charter and commercial flights; We still don’t know where to go.”
The compatriot stated: “in Zaporizhzhia they closed the airspace, the trains, and there are long lines to fill the cars with gasoline.” And although there is still no fighting nearby, the Ecuadorian medical student said that there is already a food shortage.
The option for him and his Ukrainian partner is to go to the northern border. This would imply a day and a half of travel. And look for places to sleep and find transportation. But upon reaching the border, nothing would be safe. “The Ecuadorians we need one schengen visa to be able to enter Europe and more students They do not have it. “The process takes weeks, maybe months,” she said.
Andrade He added that they have placed the orders to Chancellery and still no solution. They can only go (with visa of transit) to Spain or the Netherlands. But that visa of transit is not easy to obtain because many embassies have already withdrawn their diplomats from Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Chancellery Ecuadorian announced a press conference at 10:30 this February 24 to discuss the issue of the crisis in Ukraine. (GVL)
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