NEW DELHI: A Ukrainian plane that arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate Ukrainians has been hijacked.
According to the ABP News Bureau, Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Yenin shared that the Ukrainian aircraft has been hijacked by unidentified people who flew it into Iran.
“Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us, it flew into Iran with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians. Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport,” he said, as quoted by TASS.
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According to the Deputy Foreign Minister, the hijackers were armed. News agency TASS reported that the plane flew into Iran with an unidentified group of passengers, instead of lifting Ukrainian passengers.
The report said that the deputy minister did not report anything about what happened to the plane or whether Kiev would seek to get it back or how the Ukrainian citizens got back from Kabul, onboard of this “practically stolen” plane or another one sent by Kiev.
