Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Preparations for the evacuation of Poles from the Donbass – Television Republic

The Kharkov goes Foreign Ministry delegation, which is to prepare assistance and possible evacuation of people of Polish origin from Donbas – said ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski.

We’re getting ready to leave, we collect things, the New Year we hope to celebrate in Poland – say the Poles living in the region.

The evacuation was initially scheduled for 29 December, due inter alia the relationships of people living in Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts where regular ongoing fight against separatists supported by Moscow. Polish wants to go close to 100 people.

– Consulate General in Kharkiv verify the list of people who would be evacuated. From the Foreign Ministry delegation embarks on holidays with Deputy Minister. Eastern and Polonia Konrad Pawlik, Andrew Jasionowskim, Deputy Director of the Department of Consular and with me to verify the information and support consulate in action – Wojciechowski said.

With the area covered by the conflict would be evacuated people of Polish descent, having the Polish Charter or which could otherwise documented way to confirm their Polish ancestry, and their immediate family members.

On the Polish consulate in Kharkiv on Wednesday morning, yet there were two messages regarding . evacuation – December 18 and December 21. You could read them, that those who wanted to go to Polish, should report the willingness to go no later than 26 December 2014. President of one of the Polish-American organizations, who will pass it then the Consulate General in Kharkiv.

Statement of December 18, contained information that the departure from Kharkiv to Polish will be held on December 29. In a later communication there is no date.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said that the ministry is ready at any time to evacuate people of Polish origin from Donbas. – We are in full readiness. We work and we are in constant contact on this issue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – stressed.

Hope for the fastest trip like no secret of Poles living in conflict areas. – We hope that we will have some peace of mind that we will have a chance for a peaceful sky above him. Please ceasefire, but still continues shooting, explosions. We are preparing for the trip. Our thoughts are on the way. We collect things, some fired from work. We expect that the New Year will be celebrated in Poland – said Valentina old girl from the Polish Cultural Society of Donbas.

She informed that the Poles living in the region have a signal from the consulate that December 29 will be ready to go to Polish.

– According to the information provided the foundation for three Polish organizations in the Donbass, volunteered to evacuate nearly 90 people. Some of them began to sell their belongings, some prepare for the transport of sick parents. Today we remain in uncertainty about their fate – emphasizes Michael Dworczyk turn with the board the Freedom and Democracy Foundation, which sent PAP message.

Last week, the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry informed members of the parliamentary committee. Communication with Poles abroad, it takes verification of Polish origin who want to escape from falling fighting in eastern Ukraine; it’s about a hundred people; ad-hoc grants them gifts, in Poland there waiting for them to help – assured.


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