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The Russian Ministry of Defense revealed that Ukrainian forces are holding more than 7,500 foreign “hostages,” including 245 Jordanians.

The Russian “TASS” news agency quoted a statement by the head of the National Defense Command Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, that the Ukrainian forces are forcibly holding thousands of foreign citizens “hostages” in various Ukrainian cities.

According to Mizintsev, “in the city of Kharkov there are 3,189 Indians, 2,700 Vietnamese, 200 Jordanians, 30 Egyptians, and in the city of Sumy, there are 576 Indians, 121 Chinese, 100 Ghanaians, 60 Egyptians, and 45 Jordanians,” according to the statement.

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 From Ukraine through Budapest, Bucharest and Warsaw to Jordan.

In a message they sent to the online newspaper, Jordan News, the students said 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 Sumy, 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 of the Russian invasion. for Ukraine.

After the students’ appeal, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs confirmed that it is following up in 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 TV that the ministry is making unremitting efforts with all concerned authorities to secure a safe passage for Jordanians in the city of Sumy with the aim of evacuating them safely to Jordan.