The Brazilian footballers of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dinamo and their families who were in a hotel in Kiev managed to leave the Ukrainian capital on a train that will transport them to the border with Romania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday.
The group of almost 50 people was notified 40 minutes in advance to go to a nearby station and from there take a rented train to Chernivtsi, near the border with Romania and where a Brazilian diplomatic mission that traveled from Bucharest will receive them .
The chancellor, Carlos França, “activated the ‘Brazilians in Ukraine’ Working Group, a nucleus of support for nationals in that country and which will be in charge of coordinating emergency actions and implementing a contingency plan for the safe withdrawal and ordered,” the Ministry quoted in a note.
However, the futsal player Matheus Ramires, who was part of the group, told the Globonews channel that after lunch he went to take a bath and when he returned the group had already left the place without notifying him.
“We all want to go out, we are all Brazilians. Very good that they were able to do it, but I would never have left a Brazilian behind. In fact, when the club brought us to the hotel, we put pressure on a Brazilian student to come to the ‘bunker,'” said the Skyup Kyiv player.
The action took place a few hours after the group of players and families broadcast a video on Instagram, the second in two days, in which they appealed for the help of the Government and international humanitarian to be escorted to the train station arranged by the Embassy of Brazil.
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) also indicated, but without giving logistical details of the operation, that it has two KC-390 Millenium multimission aircraft for the possible transport of its citizens and other South Americans who are in Ukraine, a country that was invaded by forces Russian military.
In fact, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry indicated that other Brazilians and South American citizens managed to cross the border with Romania and are already with the mission that traveled from Bucharest and awaits the group of athletes and their families.
