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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs confirmed, on Friday evening, that it is following up “intensive contacts, including with specialized international organizations, to evacuate Jordanians present in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.”

The official spokesman for the ministry, Ambassador Haitham Abu Al-Foul, told Al-Mamlaka channel, “The ministry is making unremitting efforts with all concerned authorities to secure a safe passage for Jordanians in Sumy, with the aim of evacuating them safely to Jordan.”

Jordanian students in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine issued a distress call to His Majesty King Abdullah II to urgently intervene and secure their exit from Ukraine, at a time when the number of Jordanian citizens who were able to leave Ukrainian lands reached about 650 Jordanians through the border crossings adjacent to it, while about 232 Jordanian citizens arrived Coming from Ukraine via Budapest, Bucharest and Warsaw to Jordan.

The students said in a message they sent to the electronic newspaper “Jordan News” that they are living in difficult and miserable conditions in the Ukrainian Sumy due to the lack of food, the tension in the city and the continuous power cuts, pointing out that they cannot leave their homes for fear of aerial bombardment.

The students, who are still trapped in the city of Sumy, which is about 40 km from the Russian border, appealed to His Majesty King Abdullah II and Jordanian officials to secure a crossing for them to leave Ukraine, noting that they were unable to find any way out due to the trains stopping since the first day. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Haitham Abu Al-Ful, had confirmed the existence of difficulties and challenges facing Jordanians, stressing at the same time that the ministry is in constant contact with them in order to inform them of the latest developments related to the crisis in Ukraine, stressing that the ministry continues to update information and warnings to citizens.

The online newspaper, Akhbar Al-Jordan, tried to obtain a comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, without being able to do so.

The ministry said earlier, that the crisis cell in the ministry’s operations center unit, in coordination with the various Jordanian authorities and institutions, continues its work around the clock, by maintaining contacts with Jordanians inside Ukraine, receiving their contacts, checking on them, and directing them to ensure their security and safety, within efforts and follow-up. The Ministry of the situation of Jordanians in Ukraine.

On Thursday, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to establish “humanitarian corridors” to evacuate civilians from areas where battles are taking place.

“The second round of talks is over,” Adviser to the Ukrainian President, a member of the negotiating delegation, Mykhailo Podolak, said on Twitter. Unfortunately, Ukraine has not yet achieved the results it needs. There are only decisions about organizing humanitarian corridors.”