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No plane taking out Ukrainian citizens, foreigners from Afghanistan, hijacked – Kuleba
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Not a single plane, which was supposed to take out Ukrainian citizens and foreigners from Afghanistan, is in someone’s captivity, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
"There were threats to our plane, but we solved all these problems. Not a single plane that should have taken out Ukrainian citizens or should take out Ukrainian citizens and foreigners was captured by someone or is under someone’s contro. Yevhen [Enin, Deputy MFA of Ukraine] spoke about [the incident], journalists picked it up, promoted it, but there was no hijacking of the plane as such," Kuleba said at an online briefing on Thursday.
The minister said that Enin, whose words that the Ukrainian plane was allegedly hijacked in Kabul, were quoted by the media, "is a professional experienced diplomat and a person who literally has not slept in recent weeks, evacuating our citizens from Afghanistan."
"But exactly at the moment when his words about the story with our plane were heard, he obviously dealt with no less experienced journalists who saw the sensation in a separate phrase, took it out of context and began to promote it. This is professional, I don’t have any claims here, I think it was just a lack of communication," he said.
The minister said that "organizing the evacuation from Afghanistan is the most difficult operation that we have ever encountered.[…] Because the level of challenges and the dynamics of the situation there, at the Kabul airport, simply went off scale," Kuleba said.
