At least 12 000 Moroccans including 8 000 students usually reside in Ukraine. But 3 000 returned before the Russian offensive in Ukraine, according to Foreign Affairs in Rabat, in particular thanks to special flights. The kingdom will set up, Wednesday, March 2, special flights for its nationals from neighboring countries of Ukraine, to Casablanca and at a fixed rate of 750 dirhams (70 euros), according to the Ministry of Affairs foreign. “In consultation with the Moroccan authorities, Royal Air Maroc will set up special flights for the Moroccan community established in Ukraine, mainly composed of students. To this end, and due to the closure of Ukrainian airspace, the National Company will schedule flights at exceptional rates from countries bordering Ukraine”RAM said in a statement.
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In consultation with the Moroccan authorities, Royal Air Maroc sets up special flights exclusively for Moroccans established in Ukraine at a fixed rate of 750 MAD including tax.
— Royal Air Maroc (@RAM_Maroc) February 27, 2022
The Embassy of Egypt, a country with 6 000 nationals in Ukraine, more than half of whom are students, the majority registered in Kharkiv, said on Facebook to coordinate the evacuation of its nationals to Romania and Poland.
Tunisia, which does not have an embassy in Ukraine, will send planes to Poland and Romania to repatriate its nationals who wish to leave, among the 1 700 living in Ukraine, 80% of them students. “In order to ensure repatriation under the best conditions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reinforced its teams in the embassies in Warsaw and Bucharest and dispatched diplomats to the Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Romanian border posts as well as to the points of passage, in order to provide the necessary assistance to Tunisian nationals”, reports the TAP agency. Libya has planned rallying points in Ukraine and evacuations to Slovakia for a diaspora estimated at nearly 3 000 people, according to its embassy in Ukraine.
Algeria deplores the death, which occurred on February 26 in Kharkiv, of a 24-year-old national who died “a gunshot wound to the head”. Algeria, which has a thousand students in Ukraine and is linked to Russia by military agreements, has distinguished itself by not calling on its nationals to leave the country. But she urged them to “Extreme caution and only to leave their homes in an emergency”.
I’#Algeria continuously monitors the situation of its #nationals in #Ukrainehttps://t.co/hqB7FrIby0 pic.twitter.com/GlYf6r7QUv
— ALGERIA PRESS SERVICE | وكالة الأنباء الجزائرية (@APS_Algerie) February 28, 2022
“Our diplomatic representations in Poland and Romania have taken the necessary steps to facilitate the entry of our nationals from Ukraine. Ultimately, the Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Moldovan authorities have all confirmed that foreign residents in Ukraine can travel to the four countries without a visa but with a valid passport”, indicates, in a press release, the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.