People on the border between Ukraine and HungaryMOSCOW, February 27 The Hungarian Foreign Ministry organized the evacuation of 35 people from Kyiv, among them Hungarian diplomats with families, journalists, employees of the OSCE and the Council of Europe, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. «This convoy is already safe, now they are still at the Consulate General in Uzhgorod. Soon, accompanied by the police, they will go to the Hungarian border and get to Hungary, that is, we can already assume that they are safe,» Szijjarto said in a video message , posted on Facebook.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry reported 2,500 requests from Turks to evacuate UkraineAccording to him , out of 35 people, 24 are employees of the Hungarian embassy, diplomats and members of their families, including children, two are Hungarian television journalists and two are citizens of Hungary. Seven employees of the Kiev offices of the OSCE and the Council of Europe were also evacuated, as international organizations turned to Hungary for help in the evacuation. Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine on Thursday, February 24. In a televised address to the Russians, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass have asked for help.» The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces are not inflicting any strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure is disabled by high-precision means. The civilian population, according to the department, is not in danger. Published: Ekaterina Zaitseva
