The 106 Spaniards evacuated from Ukraine from Krakow They landed early this Monday at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, where they were received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares.
Another forty Spanish have decided to remain in Poland -where they arrived in two convoys organized by the Spanish Embassy in Kiev- or return to Spain by their own means “because they have family or because they are going to make the trip directly to other parts of Spain and they have not wanted to use the plane provided by the Government”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reported in statements to the media from the airport.
“It is a day of great relief”, Albares has expressed, who has been able to talk with some of the returnees and has lamented the “painful and human cases that are left behind”.
The plane has been chartered by the Ministry headed by Albares and in it the 140 people who expressed their intention to leave the country to the Spanish Embassy were expected to travel and that they remained in Ukraine following recommendations to leave.
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That yes, the ambassador together with the consul and the team of GEO displaced for the security tasks that traveled in the second convoy, will remain in Poland to continue paying attention to the Spanish that are still in the area.
In any case, Foreign Affairs assures that for the hundred Spaniards who have voluntarily chosen to stay in Ukrainethe Crisis Room of the Consular Emergency Division will remain open, which has been reinforced with a dozen diplomats and who serve the lines 24-hour telephone calls of the day of the number +34910001249.