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All Thais wanting evacuation now out of Ukraine

The sixth group of 14 Thai evacuees pose for photos in Poland on Sunday. before leaving for home. (Photo: Thai embassy in Warsaw)

All Thais who wanted evacuation from Ukraine have left the country according to the Thai embassy in Warsaw, in neighbouring Poland, which hoped to persuade the rest to follow suit.

The embassy said the sixth group of evacuees, 14 of them, was scheduled to land at Suvarnabhumi airport at 12.40pm on Monday on a Qatar Airways flight.

A seventh group, of 12, would leave Bucharest, in Romania, on Monday on a Thai Airways flight, with touchdown at Suvarnabhumi scheduled for 6.05am on Tuesday. 

The embassy said that on Monday afternoon it would bring the last Thai who wanted to leave Ukraine out from Lviv to Poland.

Altogether, 230 Thais would have then been evcuated from Ukraine to safety. Other Thais who  had family obligations requiring they stay in Ukraine, or who chose to stay, were also being advised to leave as soon as possible, the embassy said. 

According to the embassy, there had been 256 Thais in Ukraine when the Russian invasion started. Most of them worked at massage and spa parlours. Twenty-two had families there.

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