Embassy in Russia helps repatriate Vietnamese evacuees from Ukraine

Vietnamese evacuees at Russia's Sheremetievo airport (Photo: VNA)

Moscow (VNA) – The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia, in collaboration ofthe Vietnamese Association in Russia, welcomed and repatriated Vietnamese people who had evacuated from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to Russia, from May 29-31.

There were 11 evacuees, including four children, travellingfrom Donestsk to Rostov on Don city.

The group was welcomed at Kazan train station on May29. Two days later, eight of them were supported to return to Vietnam on a QatarAirways flight.

During their stay at the Vietnamese embassy, they werereceived by Ambassador Dang Minh Khoi who wished them to soon overcomedifficulties and stabilise their lives when returning the homeland.

Nguyen Tung Lam, head of the embassy’s Desk for Consular Affairs,said that the desk has maintained contact with Russian authorities at bordergates as well as the Vietnamese communities in Rostov on Don, Voronezh and Krasnodarto promptly support Vietnamese evacuees from eastern Ukraine./.

VNA