Ukraine Planning To Send Second Aircraft To Evacuate Its Citizens From Japan On March 21

The FINANCIAL — Ukraine plans to send a second aircraft to Japan on Monday night to evacuate Ukrainian citizens from the country.

Oleksandr Dikusarov, the spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, announced this in a statement.

The aircraft is scheduled to be sent at 19:40, Kyiv time, from the Boryspil international airport (Kyiv region) by Air Ukraine International.

The aircraft will fly to Tokyo (the capital of Japan).

It is expected to arrive in Tokyo at 16:00, local time, on March 22.

As of Monday morning, about 60 citizens of Ukraine had expressed the desire to return to Ukraine from Japan.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the Ukrainian citizens in Japan who have the desire to leave the country apply to contact the Ukrainian embassy in Tokyo or the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry's consular department.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the first airplane carrying 137 Ukrainian evacuees from Japan arrived in Ukraine at night on March 18.

Earlier, Ukraine sent medicines and 2,000 blankets to Japan as humanitarian aid for the victims of the earthquakes and tsunami in the country.

A magnitude-7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 9, followed by several earthquakes on March 11, including a magnitude-8.9 earthquake, and a tsunami.