Africa-Press – Angola. More than 160 Angolans in Ukraine asked, Thursday (24), once again, the Angolan Government to be removed from that country, “as soon as possible”, due to the worsening situation of insecurity.
The information was disclosed yesterday, by the person responsible for the Angolan community in Ukraine, Manuel de Assunção, on the day that Russia carried out the attack on Ukraine.
At the beginning of yesterday morning, when approached by telephone by Jornal de Angola, to describe the situation, after the explosions registered in some Ukrainian cities, Manuel de Assunção replied: “we woke up today with a tense atmosphere of explosions. with the Angolan ambassador in Russia and with the secretary of the Angolan Consulate in Poland, so I will only give a signal later”.
The waiting time for resuming the conversation with Jornal de Angola allowed Manuel de Assunção to conclude the dialogue with the Angolan ambassador to Russia, Augusto da Silva Cunha, who recommended that he send the result of a survey of the exact number of Angolans in Ukraine, for a possible intervention by the Angolan Government, with a view to the exit of our compatriots from Ukraine.
Manuel de Assunção says that the ambassador asked to transmit to the Angolan community in Ukraine the appeal to “keep calm”, because “the Angolan State is aware of the situation”, having already admitted the possibility of “evacuating the Angolans to Poland , as a place of refuge”.
The Angolan diplomat did not give dates, according to Manuel de Assunção, only mentioning that the “evacuation is coming soon”. Among the more than 160 Angolans living in Ukraine, there are 132 self-employed students and only three scholarship holders at the expense of the Angolan State Due to the perplexity expressed by the journalist, he revealed
that in 2014, after the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia, “Angolan diplomatic personnel and scholarship holders controlled by the National Institute of Scholarship Management moved from Ukraine to Russia”.
The three fellows acquired the scholarship last year and study at universities located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, under the Annual Submission Program of 300 Bachelors or Masters with High Academic Performance and Merit to the Best Universities in the World.
“Where we are, even the Ukrainians themselves don’t feel safe,” described Manuel de Assunção, who said they had been warned to carry documents, in addition to more important accessories, to be identified in any situation.
Manuel de Assunção is in Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine, which welcomes about 30 Angolan students, considered one of the “danger zones”, as it is close to the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk, occupied by Ukrainian separatists since 2014.
Manuel de Assunção declared that Angolans in Ukraine “are not abandoned” or left to their own devices, after emphasizing the fact that Angolan embassies and consulates in Russia and Poland are guaranteeing “moral support” and keep the Angolan community informed at all times.
“Because there is no physical embassy of Angola in Ukraine, we are served by the embassies in Russia and Poland”, explained the person in charge of the community, who emphasized that explosions were recorded yesterday morning in Dnipro, Odessa and Mariupol, cities that , as he underlined, “they do not even have borders with Russia”.
The city of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, was also mentioned by Manuel de Assunção. “We also have news of Angolans who, in Kiev, woke up with explosions”, in addition to having “a warning signal coming from Kiev Borispol airport”, the largest in Ukraine.
Born in Benguela and currently 29 years old, the Angolan Manuel de Assunção has been in Ukraine for seven years, on his own, and is about to complete his Master’s degree in Architecture.
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