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A plane with 94 passengers coming from Libya landed at the Boryspil airport (Kyiv region) at 0144 Kyiv time on February 26, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleksandr Dykusarov, told Interfax-Ukraine on Saturday.

He said that Boeing-737 of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) took off on February 25 at 2020 Kyiv time from Tripoli. A total of 94 passengers were aboard, including 50 Ukrainian citizens, 19 Russian citizens, 14 Azeri citizens, four Kazakh citizens, three passengers from Kyrgyzstan, two from Belarus, one citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one from Turkey.

Dykusarov said that at five or six o’clock in the morning on February 26 it was planned to send Il-66 of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to Libya.

Now a total of 70 people are on the lists of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the said plane will take them to Ukraine.