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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed the leadership of the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry to dispatch a plane to Nepal to evacuate Ukrainian citizens.

“I instructed the foreign minister and defense minister to send a plane to Nepal to pick up Ukrainians affected [by the earthquake] and take them home,” Poroshenko wrote on Facebook on April 26 evening.

He added that Ukraine grieves with the families of all the victims of the earthquake.