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RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE

First 40 Lebanese evacuees from Ukraine set to arrive in Beirut overnight


First 40 Lebanese evacuees from Ukraine set to arrive in Beirut overnight

Passengers at Boryspil airport in Ukraine last month. (Credit: Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

BEIRUT – A first wave of Lebanese citizens evacuating from Ukraine is set to arrive in Beirut on Wednesday at 2:30 a.m., the state-run National News Agency reported.

Here’s what we know:

    • The 40 repatriates evacuating Ukraine had been temporarily hosted by a Lebanese businessman, Mohamad Murad, in a hotel in Bucharest.

    • In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday, Murad said that “over 150 students” had arrived in Bucharest from Ukraine, with “200 other individuals” on their way from the Romanian-Ukrainian border.

    • Murad also announced that another wave of citizens from Bucharest would be leaving after “the necessary measures are taken.”

    • The Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon says 1,800 Lebanese citizens live in Ukraine, but the Lebanese Embassy in Kyiv estimates the number at 3,700 people.

BEIRUT – A first wave of Lebanese citizens evacuating from Ukraine is set to arrive in Beirut on Wednesday at 2:30 a.m., the state-run National News Agency reported.Here’s what we know:    • The 40 repatriates evacuating Ukraine had been temporarily hosted by a Lebanese businessman, Mohamad Murad, in a hotel in Bucharest.    • In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday,...