Nearly 600 more Vietnamese evacuees from Ukraine arrive home

Nearly 600 Vietnamese people fleeing conflict-hit Ukraine to Poland and Romania safely returned home on two Vietnam Airlines flights on Sunday, bringing the total number of Vietnamese repatriated from the European country past 1,100.

They are the first two repatriation flights operated under an agreement between national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and Vietnamese realty giant Sun Group.

Pursuant to the deal, the Vietnamese group covers the entire cost for the arrangement of the flights.

The flight from Poland’s Warsaw with 288 passengers on board touched down at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi at 9:30 am. 

The other from Romania’s Bucharest landed at 11:00 am, carrying 291 people. 

Ninety of the passengers were children aged under 18, 70 were the elderly, and 12 others were pregnant women.

The Vietnamese embassies in Poland and Romania had cooperated with Vietnamese associations in those countries to help the evacuees travel to the airports and complete pre-departure procedures.

The first two repatriation flights, funded by the state, brought 287 people back to Vietnam on March 8 and 300 others on March 10.

With four evacuations so far, a total of 1,166 Vietnamese people have been brought home from Ukraine.

As of 4:00 pm on Saturday, more than 4,500 Vietnamese people had been evacuated from Ukraine to neighboring countries. 

They included some 950 to Romania, 2,800 to Poland, 660 to Hungary, nearly 130 to Slovakia, and over 40 to Russia. 

The Vietnamese missions are busy cooperating with local authorities and multiple Vietnamese associations to arrange travel and temporary accommodations and provide food for the evacuees, while helping them resolve document issues and fulfill legal steps to prepare for the next flights home.

Russia has been attacking Ukraine since February 24, saying it wants to demilitarize and denazify the neighboring country.

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