Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)The CAAV may announce the adjustment on March 4, Son stated,citing the Foreign Ministry’s information on March 3 evening as saying that notmany Vietnamese people had travelled to Poland from Ukraine, and few of themhave the desire to return to Vietnam.
Earlier, the aviation sector planned to operate the firstflight repatriating Vietnamese people in Ukraine from Warsaw on March 5 morning,which will be conducted by Vietnam Airlines.
Meanwhile, the second flight will go from Bucharest and isplanned to be conducted by Bamboo Airways.
Data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that thereare about 7,000 Vietnamese people in Ukraine, mostly in the three major citiesof Kyiv (800), Kharkiv (3,000), and Odessa (3,000).
The CAAV said the repatriation plan now is that the citizensin Ukraine will go by road to neighbouring countries, with those in Kyiv movingto Poland, in Kharkiv to Russia, and in Odessa to Moldova or Romania, and thenflights will be arranged to bring them from these countries back home.
As it is unable to operate flights to Ukraine, which iscurrently a war zone, airlines have planned flights to destinations in nearbycountries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, and Belarus.
Apart from these destinations, Vietnamese carriers are alsoready to fly to any other places under the Government’s plan in the principleof ensuring safety and the best possible conditions for Vietnamese people andtheir families in Ukraine to return to the homeland, according to the CAAV./.
VNA
