The Thai Embassy in Poland says it’s making preparations to evacuate Thai nationals from Ukraine because of the escalating tensions with Russia. Unconventional for the embassy in Warsaw says officers have created a special Line group with which to communicate with 250 Thai residents living in Ukraine. The embassy is getting ready to evacuate them to protected houses in Poland or again to Thailand.
The embassy says that between February thirteen and 15, the Thai ambassador to Poland, Chettaphan Maksamphan, accompanied by embassy workers, travelled to the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, round 70 kilometres from the Polish border. It’s understood the journey was in preparation for using Lviv as a base for getting Thai individuals out of Ukraine. Nation Thailand reviews that the delegation met with the manager of Lviv International Airport, deliberate the route from Lviv to Warsaw, and checked hotels, restaurants and Covid-19 testing centres within the city.
On February 13, the embassy, in addition to the Department of Consular Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a warning to Thai folks to keep away from travel to Ukraine unless strictly essential. Officials additionally asked Thai people already in Ukraine to monitor the scenario closely.
This was adopted by another statement on February 22, in which the Department of Consular Affairs repeated its warning to Thai citizens to not travel to Ukraine on account of escalating tensions within the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. The following day, embassy officers held digital conferences with representatives of Thai restaurant workers across varied Ukrainian cities, to deal with the concerns of the Thai neighborhood within the nation..