Ukraine denies minister’s claims of hijacked Afghanistan evacuation flight
by Andrew Roth in Moscow from on (#5NPTS)
Deputy foreign minster Yevhen Yenin said plane was diverted to Iran by armed attackers, which Iran has also denied
A Ukrainian minister has claimed a passenger jet meant to evacuate people fleeing Afghanistan to Ukraine was hijacked at gunpoint and flown instead to Iran, in an unconfirmed incident that was later denied by his own government.
Ukraine's deputy minister for foreign affairs, Yevhen Yenin, said armed hijackers seized the plane at Kabul's Hamid Karzai international airport, where a multinational evacuation is under way ahead of a 31 August deadline for foreign militaries to leave the country set by the Taliban.
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