Dubai: United Arab Emirates for a while to suspend the neglect of visas for the citizens of Ukraine, Kyiv Embassy in the Bay Arab country said, at a time thousands of people fled in Ukraine.
The UAE decision to take effect on Tuesday, the Embassy said in notice to residents on the Facebook page, without giving reasons. Emirati authorities did not respond to requests for comments.
Uranian Anna Goncharnco, talked to Reuters in Dubai where she was on vacation, slamming a decision at a time “throughout the world to help”. He lives in the Netherlands, but his daughter lives in Kyiv with his father.
“I found it is actually a crime of this country (UAE) if they don’t let Ukraine enter the state now and need a visa. How do they have to get a visa at this time, it is impossible,” he said, tearing out of the Ukrainian pavilion in the Dubai Expo World Fair .
More than 650,000 people have escaped from Ukraine to European countries adjacent since the Russian invasion. The European Union said he was preparing millions of refugees.
UAE, which has adopted a neutral attitude in the conflict and called for a ceasefire and diplomacy, said that on Wednesday it would provide assistance to civilians in Ukraine worth $ 5 million, report media countries.
Inna and his daughter Sonia, also visited Dubai for the World Fair, worried about their family and friends in the city of Odessa Black Sea Port.
“Very terrible, very sad. We were nervous for our friends, for our family because they were there and could not leave the country,” Inna said, who refused to give her last name.
Sonia wants to go home.
“This year I should have graduated from class, now I don’t know what will happen tomorrow … Please stop the war in our country, it’s very scary,” he said, speaking English.