The young people are currently in Poland, awaiting a new humanitarian flight that will bring them to Ecuador.
Seven Ecuadorians who were trapped in Ukraine are already in Poland, where they await a repatriation flightreported this Thursday (March 10, 2022) the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry.
“Good news. Thanks to coordination with international organizations such as the Red Cross, the seven Ecuadorians who were in one of the most dangerous areas of the conflict, today they are already in Poland,” Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín said on Twitter.
The Vice Minister of Human Mobility, Luis Vayas, meets with the seven Ecuadoriansmostly young studentsthat «soon they will return in the third humanitarian flight“, explained the chancellor.
Last Tuesday, Holguín announced that, thanks to international support, it had managed to manage the evacuation of that group of Ecuadorians who was in Sumy, one of the risk areas in the Ukraine conflict.
To date they have arrived in Ecuador on humanitarian flights 449 nationals who escaped from the war in ukraine. They joined seven Ecuadorians and the wives of two of them, of Ukrainian nationality, who arrived over the weekend from Mexico, where they traveled on a plane humanitarian chartered by the Government of that country.
In other humanitarian flight Six Colombian citizens also arrived in Ecuador, in an act of solidarity with that neighboring country.
Ecuador was one of the Latin American countries with the largest group of nationals present in Ukraine when the Russian military invasion began, at the end of February.
The Foreign Ministry estimates that there were around 800 Ecuadorians on Ukrainian soil before the outbreak of the armed conflict, most of them students. EFE
