Special flight from Amsterdam leaves 177 Ukrainian sailors

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Special flight from Amsterdam leaves 177 Ukrainian sailors

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12.05.2020 15:11

Ukrinform

From the Netherlands to Ukraine at 11 a.m. local time, a special flight piloted 177 Ukrainian sailors who were on cruise ships.

This was reported by the Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague.

“Thanks to the hard work of our colleagues in Washington, who, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, resolved all the questions concerning the organization of this special flight, it became possible for the crew members of cruise ships, including Ukrainian citizens, to return home. The total number of passengers on board the ship is 208. Among them, 177 are Ukrainian citizens, 2 Russians, 28 Moldovan citizens, a Romanian citizen “, Yury Karpuk, Ukrainian consul in the Netherlands, said in a comment to a correspondent for Ukrinform in The Hague.

Ukrainian sailors flew from Amsterdam to Kiev on a special flight / Photo: Irina Drabok, Ukrinform

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As Ukrinform reported, on May 8, 159 Ukrainian sailors who were on cruise ships flew from the Netherlands to Ukraine on a special flight from Ukraine International Airlines.

We are talking about ten of these airliners: Regal Princess, Emerald Princess, Caribbean Princess, Island Princess, Crown Princess, Sky Princess, Volendam, Veendam, Nieuw Amsterdam, Rotterdam.

According to the materials: ukrinform.ru