About 1.6 thousand Russian citizens applied to the diplomatic missions of Russia for export from Kazakhstan, told representative of the department Maria Zakharova in Telegram.
“As of today, a total of about 1,600 citizens have been registered who have expressed a desire to use the export planes to return to Russia,” she said.
In addition, from the city of Baikonur to Moscow delivered 30 students and cadets of military universities from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Orenburg, Yaroslavl and Voronezh, who were in Kazakhstan during the New Year holidays. They were taken out by the Roskosmos squadron.
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The Russian military transport aviation will be engaged in the export of the Russians, the Russian embassy said. The diplomatic mission announced the first flight on January 9, the Russians were allowed to take only one piece of hand luggage per person. The Foreign Ministry has opened an operational headquarters in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan to collect applications for evacuation from Russians. The Department of the Situation and Crisis Center of the department later added that by the evening of January 8, “several hundred” of the country’s citizens wished to fly to Russia.
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