Ukraine says evacuation airplane hijacked in Kabul, flown to Iran; retracts allegation later

After alleging that its evacuation airplane became hijacked and flown to Iran, Ukraine has now retracted its declare.

Abas Aslani, Spokesman for the Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran denied the claims and stated, “This airplane got here to Mashhad airport (northeastern Iran) the previous day for refueling and after refueling, it left for Ukraine and arrived at Kiev airport at 21: 50.”

Earlier it stated, the airplane had arrived in Kabul to evacuate its residents and became hijacked by unidentified people who flew it to Iran.

“Last Sunday, our airplane became hijacked by diversified people. On Tuesday, the airplane became virtually stolen from us, it flew into Iran with an unidentified neighborhood of passengers onboard in want to airlifting Ukrainians. Our subsequent three evacuation makes an try devour been moreover not successful due to our people may maybe effectively moreover not safe into the airport,” Ukraine’s Deputy Overseas Minister Yevgeny Yenin became quote announcing by The Russian Information Company.