Ukraine evacuates more than 80 people from Kabul

"A military transport plane of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived at the Boryspil International Airport, evacuating 83 people from Afghanistan, including 31 Ukrainians, as well as citizens of other countries. Twelve Ukrainian service members returned to their homeland. Foreign journalists and public figures, who asked for help, were also rescued," the President's Office announced on Facebook.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba added on Facebook, he was "especially pleased to see one of the 12 Ukrainians blocked at a military base outside Kabul."

"I spoke with him on the phone and promised that we would pull them out. We delivered them all home. It was about them that the Russians spread fake news that Ukraine had abandoned them. But we kept our promises because Ukraine does not abandon its people," the minister stressed.

According to him, currently Ukraine is preparing for the next evacuation from Kabul.

Yesterday it became known that the second military transport plane of Ukraine left the Kabul airport and stayed at an airport in Pakistan for some time.

As reported, on the morning of August 15, the Taliban surrounded Kabul and began entering the Afghan capital without a fight. The Taliban announced they had taken control of entire Afghanistan.

Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Taliban's political office, said the war was over in Afghanistan and no diplomatic organization had been attacked.

The United States and a number of EU countries began evacuating their embassies from Kabul.

Earlier this week, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 80 people, including eight Ukrainians, had been evacuated from Kabul by Ukrainian plane.

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