Africa-Press – Angola. The process of flight of Angolans who decided to leave Ukraine was concluded on Wednesday, with the entry into Poland of the four compatriots who were in the city of Sumy (northeast).
The information was forwarded, by the president of the Angolan community in Ukraine, Manuel de Assunção, who said that “only Angolans who decided to stay there” were in Ukraine.
The flight of Angolans from Ukraine followed a survey carried out by the leadership of the Angolan community in that country, in conjunction with the Angolan embassies in Poland and Russia.
The survey made it possible to ascertain the interest of 168 Angolan adults, who said “yes” to the flight from Ukraine, with the number having grown to around 200 people, as four Ukrainians, wives of Angolans, and six children were included.
Manuel de Assunção, who gave a major interview to Jornal de Angola, which will be published in one of the next editions, said that, until the day of the invasion of Russia, on 24 February, about 300 Angolans lived in Ukraine, most of them students. self-employed and three scholarship holders at the expense of the Angolan Government.
The three scholarship holders were studying under the Program for the Annual Sending of 300 Graduates and Masters of High Performance and Academic Merit to the Best Universities in the World, an initiative of the Angolan Government.
This information had already been forwarded to Jornal de Angola by Manuel de Assunção, when he was still in Dnipro, one of the main cities in Ukraine.
Without wanting to question the number advanced, in a statement, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Manuel de Assunção said that he had controlled the departure of about 200 people from Ukraine, information that reinforces the possibility, already admitted a few days ago by another source. , that the number has grown to 277 citizens, following the flight of compatriots who, at the last minute, took this decision, without having communicated to the leadership of the Angolan community in the Eastern European country. This flow can continue if the war is prolonged.
Manuel de Assunção confirmed the presence, in Poland, of the four students, three women, showing Jornal de Angola a short message, sent to his cell phone by one of the members of the group, in which it can be read that they arrived safely.
The arrival in Poland of the four Angolans put an end to what Manuel de Assunção considered “mental affliction”, a state he had been in since his arrival, in the early hours of last Sunday, in the Angolan capital, for not having managed to get all his compatriots to safety. , who, during the uprising, said “yes” to the escape from Ukraine.
“All those who decided to leave Ukraine are no longer in that country”, reiterated Manuel de Assunção, who, in Luanda, is in the same hotel unit that welcomes the other citizens repatriated from Poland, in a group of 30 people, of the 277 who were under the control of the Embassy of Angola in the European Union country.
The president of the Angolan community in Ukraine confirmed and recognized the commitment of the Angolan Embassy in Russia, which, according to him, did everything, through diplomatic contacts, for the four students to leave Ukraine through Russia.
Manuel de Assunção said that, as president of the Angolan community in Ukraine, he was always in contact with the four compatriots and confirmed that he agreed and supported the decision to leave the city of Sumy as soon as possible, towards the city of Lviv, one of the main Ukraine’s escape doors.
The four agreed on the escape plan with a taxi driver, who, on Monday, took them to the city of Lviv, a journey that took more than 12 hours, from where they were transported by another taxi driver to the Polish border.
“The four arrived well, thank God,” said Manuel de Assunção, explaining that, among the approximately 200 people who left Ukraine, following the survey carried out to prepare for the flight, there are also those who entered Hungary. , Romania, Slovakia and Moldova, also countries that border Ukraine, in addition to Russia and Belarus, thus making a total of six countries that share the border with Ukraine.
Born in the province of Benguela, Manuel de Assunção has been in Ukraine since 2013, where he graduated in Architecture and was about to complete his Masters in Interior Architecture, studying on his own.
In Angola, Manuel de Assunção completed, before traveling to Ukraine, the High School Drafter and a degree in Computer Engineering, in the province of Huambo.
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