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Thai embassy helping Thais, Filipinos leave Ukraine

Forty-three Thais and 15 Filipinos pose for photos before leaving the Thai assistance centre in Lviv for Poland on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo: Foreign Ministry)

The Thai embassy in Warsaw has evacuated both Thais and Filipinos from Ukraine, with more Thais due to arrive home on Saturday morning.

Only one Thai who wants to leave is unable to. That person is stranded in the city of Severodonetsk, which is near the eastern border in a pro-Russian separatist zone not controlled by the Ukraine government.

The Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a fourth group of 16 Thai evacuees would board a Thai Airways International flight in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday and was scheduled to arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport at 6.50am on Saturday.

A fifth group, of 45 Thais, was due to leave Warsaw, Poland, on an Emirates…

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