[NTDTV, Beijing time, February 28, 2022]The Chinese Embassy in Ukraine, which had promised a few days ago to charter flights to return Chinese citizens back to China, changed its tune again, saying that the evacuation operation could not be carried out now, on the grounds that “Russian invasion The situation after Ukraine is too dangerous”.
On the afternoon of February 26, local time, on the Weibo account of the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine, a nearly 10-minute video and text of the Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong was released to refute the rumors that the “ambassador had escaped”, in an attempt to appease the people who were trapped due to the failure to evacuate the Chinese nationals in advance. Chinese citizens in Ukraine in the middle of the war.
He said that many people want to return to China, but “the current security conditions are indeed not available in all places”. “Think about it, there are missiles in the air from time to time, explosions and guns on the ground from time to time, and there are ongoing battles between the two armies. The curfew orders continue one after another. How can it be possible to ensure safety in this situation?! … So, we must wait until it is safe to go.”
In the weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, many countries, including the United States, Britain and Japan, evacuated diplomats from Ukraine and urged their nationals to leave Ukraine immediately. But the Chinese authorities have never called or arranged for Chinese personnel to evacuate Ukraine before the war.
The Chinese embassy in Ukraine did not announce until the 24th that it would arrange a charter flight to evacuate the Chinese nationals. But on the same day, Ukraine announced the closure of its airspace to civil aviation over concerns about the high risk posed by missiles and anti-aircraft weapons.
In addition, it is even more ironic that after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Chinese embassy in Ukraine once suggested that Chinese nationals who travel long distances by car can put the Chinese flag on the car body, which means that it can protect Chinese citizens from attack. Under the hype of the official media, the Chinese blood flag was even sold out in Kyiv. Notes such as “#with the national flag will have the backbone#” and “#the scene of the original battle wolf 2 is true#” also became hot search keywords on Sina Weibo for a time.
However, Ukrainians were angry because of the CCP’s support for Russia and the remarks of Chinese little pinks insulting Ukrainian women. The Chinese in Ukraine are all in danger. Many people are questioned by locals in subways and bomb shelters, and they dare not stay any longer. Some Chinese students took to the streets to be asked which country they were from, and they lied that they were “Japanese” out of fear.
Some netizens also sneered: “Suddenly there are thousands of Japanese people who can’t speak Japanese in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Can Japan give a reasonable explanation?”
In the early morning of February 26, the Chinese embassy in Uzbekistan issued another emergency notice, asking local Chinese and international students to “don’t reveal their identities and display identifying signs at will.” Pictures and videos online show that students and Chinese in Ukraine are now busy tearing off and destroying anything that could be identified as a Chinese logo.
In contrast, for Taiwanese in Ukraine, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs arranged a special car to evacuate overseas Chinese from western Ukraine to escort 6 Taiwanese all the way to Warsaw, the capital of Poland. , all the way unhindered, arrived in Poland.
(Editor in charge: Lin Qing)
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