Foreign Ministry: citizens evacuated from Mariupol to be transferred to Poland
Over 2,000 Georgian citizens have returned to their homeland using the assistance, with the Georgian Government also set to ensure transportation of bodies of Georgian volunteers killed in Ukraine in the recent days, the Foreign Ministry said. Photo: Foreign Ministry.
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Georgian citizens evacuated from the under-fire Ukrainian city of Mariupol will be transported to Poland, the Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Ministry’s update said the Georgian Embassy in Ukraine had managed to maintain communications with a group of Georgian nationals in Mariupol, despite difficulties of reaching the besieged city on Ukraine’s Azov Sea coast.
Over the last 24 hours, 60 Georgian citizens have been evacuated from the territory of Ukraine, the Ministry added, in particular from the cities of Lviv and Odesa to the neighbouring states, before their eventual departure to Georgia.
Georgian diplomatic missions in Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv, as well as in Ukraine’s neighbouring countries, have been working in an emergency 24-hour mode since the start of Russia’s invasion last month, with the goal of helping Georgian citizens evacuate from the Ukrainian territory.
By the decree of the Prime Minister of Georgia, the diplomatic missions have been instructed to provide basic assistance to Georgian nationals and organise their eventual transportation to Georgia.
Over 2,000 Georgian citizens have returned to their homeland using the assistance, with the Georgian Government also set to ensure transportation of bodies of Georgian volunteers killed in Ukraine in the recent days, the Foreign Ministry said.
Approximately 2,000 Georgian citizens evacuated from Ukraine during the war have already returned home with the government’s assistance, said the Georgian Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
An additional consular service will be set up in the Ukrainian city Lviv to assist Georgian citizens amid the intensified movement and concentration of citizens caused by the ongoing conflict in the country, the Georgian Foreign Ministry announced earlier today.
The Embassy of Georgia to Ukraine and the Georgian consulates in the Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Donetsk have switched to an emergency working mode due to a "high risk of further escalation in Ukraine," the Georgian foreign ministry announced earlier today.
Since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine last month, a decree of the Prime Minister of Georgia instructed diplomatic missions of Georgia in the country to organise evacuation of Georgian nationals to their home country and provide them with basic assistance on the backdrop of the war.
Ukrainian-language sections will be opened at Tbilisi-based educational venues for students from Ukraine who are having to stay in the capital during the conflict in their home country, Georgia’s Education Ministry announced on Friday.
The Georgian Government has provided assistance to about 3,000 citizens of Georgia in Ukraine, while 100 Georgian nationals have returned from the country in the past week, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.