Ukrainian Plane hijacked in Kabul, diverted to Iran.
Channel: Wahjoc
Date: 2021-08-24

Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Yenin Tuesday said that a Ukrainian plane that arrived in Afghanistan for the evacuation of stranded UKrainianans has been hijacked.

"Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us, it flew into Iran with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians. Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport," the minister was quoted as saying by the Russian Tass news agency.

Yevgeny Yenin said that the hijackers were armed.

A Ukrainian plane that reached Afghanistan on Tuesday to evacuate Ukrainian citizens was hijacked by unidentified people who flew it into Iran, Russian News Agency TASS quoted Ukraine's deputy foreign minister, Yevgeny Yenin, as saying.

"On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us. It flew into Iran with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians," Yenin said, according to TASS.

"Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport," he added.

The minister said the hijackers were armed, reported TASS, adding that Yenin did not comment on whether Kiev would be taking measures for the aircraft's recovery.

He, however, assured that Ukraine's diplomatic service headed by its foreign minister "had been working in the crash test mode" to evacuate its citizens from Afghanistan.

There have been reports of chaos at the Kabul airport in recent days as countries across the world ramp up efforts to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country.