FG Plans Special Evacuation Flight For Nigerians As Russia Invades Ukraine

The Federal Government is planning for a special flight operation to evacuate her citizens from Ukraine in view of the escalating tension between that country and Russia which launched an invasion into the country yesterday morning. Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama in an exclusive interview with Newsmen  said the Nigerian embassy in Kiev has been contacted to arrange those wishing to return home from other areas including Donetsk and Luhensk.

The minister assured Nigerians that the ministry has been following the events between Russia and Ukraine since the beginning and promised to do everything for the safety of Nigerians in Ukraine, particularly students. Meanwhile, Russian forces are said to have seized control of the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, according to the agency that manages the area. Troops overran the plant on the first day of Russia’s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine, a spokeswoman for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, Yevgeniya Kuznetsova, told JOURNALISTS.