The aircraft chartered by the Government is scheduled to leave on Sunday night and arrive in the country on Monday, March 14.
The Government of Ecuador launched this Friday (March 11, 2022) an emergency call to its citizens residing in Ukraine for them to address the third and final humanitarian flight chartered by the Executive, which will depart on Sunday (March 13) at night with the capacity to transport 250 passengers and 40 pets.
This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Juan Carlos Holguín, who anticipated that the aircraft will pick up passengers in Warsaw (Poland) and Budapest (Romania) and will make a technical stopover in Madrid to refuel before heading to Quito, where it is expected landing on Monday, March 14.
«It’s our last humanitarian flight. Please, if you or your son or daughter are still in a conflict zone, this is the last chance to get out safely. Don’t waste it,” Holguín wrote on social networks for the Ecuadorians residing in Ukraine who are still reluctant to leave the country.
Among the countries of Latin America, Ecuador had in Ukraine one of the largest communities before the start of the russian invasionregistering around 800 residents, most of them students.
Until this Thursday, 519 nationals had returned to Ecuador in two flights of repatriation who arrived in Quito on March 4 and 5, respectively, while a small group of seven Ecuadorians and the Ukrainian wives of two of them traveled in a repatriation flight established by the Government of Mexico.
Despite the fact that the Ecuadorian government expected to have 700 compatriots back home last week with two flights with a capacity of 350 pajeros, there were problems for all the expected people to board, especially due to international regulations on the transport of pets.
Other 255 Ecuadorians are already outside the war zone, most of them in Poland and Hungary waiting for this third humanitarian flightbut there is another party that refuses to leave their country of residence despite the war.
Among the last to leave Ukraine there is a group of 7 Ecuadorians who had been trapped in Sumy for several days, where they had to wait for a humanitarian corridor arranged thanks to the coordination of international organizations such as the Red Cross.
However, there is still Ecuadorians who have not been as lucky as the case of Diego Moncayo, who is in the city of Shostka, also in the Sumy oblast (region), where he arrived after taking the wrong train when he was trying to flee from Kiev and appear at the border with Russia, the epicenter of the conflict. EFE
