CAIRO, 06 March 2022, (TON): Egyptian students returning from Ukraine via Poland arrived in their country on board two Air Cairo planes.

Egypt’s government announced on Friday that it had sent two planes to Poland to return 177 Egyptian students.

Egypt’s Ambassador to Poland Hatem Taj El-Din said his embassy “has received hundreds of phone calls from Egyptian students stranded in Ukraine.”

He added “the embassy is coordinating with the Polish side to facilitate the entry of stranded Egyptian students.”

He said “500 Egyptians have arrived in Poland so far.”

Mohamed Abdel-Aty, first secretary of the Egyptian Embassy in Ukraine, said the evacuation of Egyptians is taking place in a more disciplined manner than in the initial days of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He added “coordination is underway with the Egyptian community and its leaders in various cities in Ukraine, as well as with the Ukrainian Supreme Authority for Emergency Management to determine safe paths and the presence of a police escort on buses moving to the border.”