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An aircraft with 156 Ukrainian citizens, who are being evacuated from Egypt, landed at Boryspil airport on Friday, Foreign Ministry's spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax-Ukraine.

At 14.56, Kyiv time, an aircraft performing the Kyiv-Hurghada-Kyiv flight, andcarrying 156 citizens of Ukraine, according to updated figures, landed at Boryspil airport, Dykusarov said.

Dykusarov earlier reported that 157 Ukrainians were on board the plane owned by Kyiv-based Ukraine International Airlines, which flew out of the Egyptian city of Hurghada at 11.05 on Friday.