Ethiopian Airlines announced its readiness to assist in the evacuation of Russian citizens from African countries, the Russian Consular in Addis Ababa Rashid Umyarov told RIA Novosti.
Ethiopian Airlines is the largest airline on the continent, and they said they are ready to help with charter flights, take people anywhere, anyone. The information was passed to the Department of Africa of the Foreign Ministry (of the Russian Federation)," the diplomat said, in particular.
Now in Ethiopia, according to Umyarov, there are about 340 Russian citizens.
"38 people plan to come back to Russia. It was 45, seven left, managed to fly away, six of them tourists. The rest are working by contract, " he said.
The schedule of export flights has not yet been formed, it will be formed in the near future.
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