Military plane brings home Jordanians fleeing Ukraine war

Two Jordanian army transporters flew to Romania to bring back citizens

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Sixty-five Jordanians who fled the Russian assault on Ukraine arrived in Amman from Romania aboard a military transport plane.

Official footage showed Jordanian officials receiving them at the Marka military hospital in Amman.

Among the returnees were students studying at universities in Kyiv and other cities, as well as whole families living in Ukraine.

One student, who did not want to be named, said the road from Kyiv to the Romanian border was dangerous.

"There was constant bombing. I am glad I made it OK," he said.

Jordanian diplomats have been dispatched to Romania's border with Ukraine, as well as to other countries bordering Ukraine, to help citizens fleeing the country.

Jordan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a second military plane is waiting in Romania for more returnees to bring them back later on Wednesday.

The military sent the two planes to Romania on Tuesday, with Jordanian authorities saying that 215 Jordanians had managed to cross to Romania and Moldova from Ukraine in the last two weeks.

Dozens of Jordanians who fled Ukraine to countries in Eastern Europe have made it back to Jordan in the last few days on commercial flights.

About 5,000 Jordanians are estimated to have been living in Ukraine before the Russian assault last month.