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Ukraine denies rescue plane hijacked from Kabul to Iran |
2021-08-25 |
[IsraelTimes] Iranian aviation organization says evacuation flight stopped in Mashhad for refueling, has since landed in Kyiv. Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister reportedly claimed on Tuesday that a Ukrainian plane that was taking part in evacuation efforts of its citizens from Afghanistan was hijacked and flown to Iran, but the claim was later denied by the country’s Foreign Ministry. "Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us, it flew into Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians," Yevgeny Yenin said, according to the Russian TASS news agency. "Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport," he was said to add. Yenin claimed the hijackers were armed, according to the Russian report. But Iran’s aviation organization rejected the report, and said the plane had stopped in Mashhad overnight for refueling. Shortly after, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement asserting that no plane had been hijacked. "There are no hijacked Ukrainian planes in Kabul or elsewhere. The information about the ’hijacked plane’ that is being circulated by some media outlets is not true," the ministry’s spokesperson, Oleg Nikolenko, told the local RBC news agency. The plane has since landed in Kyiv. A military transport plane from Afghanistan with 83 people onboard, including journalists, activists, and Afghan women and kiddies, arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, Rooters reported. The Ukrainian presidential office said around one hundred Ukrainians are still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban ![]() students... takeover last week. Related from Khaama Press on the spot: Ukrainian plane hijacked in Kabul |
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