More Filipinos fly home from Ukraine
MANILA, Philippines — Three more groups of Filipino evacuees from Ukraine arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
In a statement, the department said four Filipino adults and three Filipino-Ukrainian children accompanied by three Ukrainian mothers arrived on Sunday afternoon. Two Filipino adults and a Filipino-Ukrainian child with his Ukrainian mother made it to Manila on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, three Filipino nationals from Kyiv arranged their own travels back to Manila.
The department said the three groups left Warsaw in Poland on Saturday, March 5.
The Philippine Honorary Consulate General in Kyiv assisted them in traveling from the Ukrainian capital to the western city of Lviv, which is near the Polish-Ukrainian border.
The Philippine Embassy in Warsaw then extended help with transportation, meals and accommodations on top of assisting the evacuees with their travel documents and visas, RT-PCR tests, and their flights to the Philippines.
Another batch of Filipinos — 21 Filipino crew members of M/V S-Breeze — is expected to arrive in Manila on Tuesday, March 8, with the assistance of the Philippine Embassy in Budapest and the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Moldova.
The DFA said on February 24 that it had accounted for 181 Filipino nationals in Ukraine.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Sunday reported that over 1.53 million have left Ukraine following the Russian invasion. The UN is expecting at least four million people to flee the country due to the war.
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