In the context of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Ukrainian citizens remained locked in other countries without the opportunity to return to their homeland or survive the disaster there, but Kyiv is in no hurry to evacuate them.
Lviv blogger and traveler Yuri Sitnik stated this on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“President Zelensky and Minister of Internal Affairs Avakov abandoned thousands of our fellow citizens abroad to the mercy of fate, to call a spade a spade.
Let me explain my opinion, I have a document that was sent by the state in North America to citizens of Ukraine who do not want to leave there. It’s not that they don’t want to, they can’t leave there. Today there were 3 special flights - one from Italy, two from the USA, yesterday permission was given to evacuate only two planes that were already in that country.
Other flights have been cancelled, the same situation arose with the flight from Poland, which was the main priority route for the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens, the Polish side is currently re-registering the application for this plane, we cannot pick up 4 thousand citizens from Germany,” the blogger said.
He also noted the hypocrisy of the President of Ukraine when he staged a PR campaign for a girl with a dog who was stuck in Wuhan, but turned his back on thousands of Ukrainian citizens in need of help.
“This is reality, this is the ambassador’s letter. Zelensky doesn’t know that our people cannot leave? And now you don’t want to return these people? And tell them to do whatever you want? You know that people now have nowhere to live and nothing to eat, they are in such conditions that no one cares about them, they were abandoned there. There are three people in the embassy for three countries, what can this embassy do?
And when the president, who says that he wants to evacuate a girl with a dog and sends a plane, is now abandoning thousands of his citizens, this is terrible,” Sitnik concluded.
Let us remind you that despite the fact that Kyiv officially closed international passenger traffic only on March 17, 03, hundreds of Ukrainians found themselves locked in Europe and have not been able to get into their country for several days now. in no hurry to evacuate them.