The last two Uruguayans with whom the Foreign Ministry was in contact on Ukrainian territory “crossed the border into Poland and are fine”, As announced on Twitter by Carolina Ache Batlle, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs. Total, there were 17 Uruguayans detected by the government who managed to leave the countryin the midst of a war between Ukraine and Russia that already left over a hundred civilian deathsaccording to the United Nations (UN).
The two Uruguayans who were still in Ukrainian territory crossed the border into Poland and are fine. A joy in the face of so much heartbreak ??
– Carolina Ache Batlle (@CarolinaAche) February 28, 2022
According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) this Monday, “All the compatriots” of whom there was a record “are in good health” and in contact with the authorities. Some are traveling to “other European destinations”, others in a hotel in Poland assisted by the Uruguayan Consulate in Krakow, and a group is in a hotel in romaniawith the support of the national embassy of that country.
However, The portfolio does not rule out that “more Uruguayans who need assistance may appear”for which he asked the population that if they have new information they communicate to the mail [email protected].
This Sunday, the Foreign Ministry announced that the two compatriots who were still in the nation at war they were in good health and about to leave that country. One of them was based in Lviv, far from the Ukraine-Russia border, and the other was already near Poland and his crossing was “imminent”, the ministry explained in a statement.
On February 25, one day after the start of the war in the area, already eight of the 17 Uruguayans who were in Ukraine had been able to fleeas announced at the time by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Of the remaining nine people, four young people between 20 and 28 years old managed to emigrate across the border with Poland on Sundayafter three days of trying to withdraw across the Romanian border without successa co-worker of the Uruguayans told The Observer.
Two other compatriots managed to leave Ukraine through the border with Moldovaincluding the footballer Charles of Pena. Both traveled with a delegation from 37 braziliansand in the last hours of Sunday they left Paris for Uruguay.
The operation was carried out by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, and consisted of a 17-hour trip from Ukraine to Moldova by bus, a transfer to the Brazilian embassy in Romania, and then a trip to Paris to return to South America.
Another Uruguayan had also managed to escape from Ukraine through Poland on Sundaydetailed Ache Batlle on Twitter.
In this way, all the Uruguayans with whom the Foreign Ministry had made contact are already outside the Ukrainian territory.
