Gov’t sends second special plane to Poland to evacuate Uzbeks stranded in Ukraine

On Monday, a second special plane took off from Tashkent to take out citizens of Uzbekistan evacuated from Ukraine. The plane is expected to arrive in Poland at 21:00 by Tashkent time, Dunyo IA reports. 

Currently, at the airport of the Polish city of Katowice, 241 citizens of Uzbekistan are being accepted on the first board of Uzbekistan Airways JSC, sent from Tashkent.

According to the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Kyiv, in order to speed up the transportation of citizens from the city of Lviv to the Krakovets checkpoint, a rental of 7 buses has been organized. At the same time, citizens of Uzbekistan continue to arrive in the Ukrainian city of Lviv for an organized departure to their homeland.

Earlier, it was reported that more than 560 citizens of Uzbekistan have already crossed the state border of Poland.