“Mr President, keep what you promised, Chancellor, do what you promised. We want our children back we want our children safe and sound” or “humanitarian aid”.
Those were some of the desperate cries of relatives of Ecuadorians who are in Ukraine, a country that was militarily invaded for Russia.
The fathers, mothers, brothers concentrated outside the Government Palace, in the center of Quito, This Friday, January 25.
they carried banners with phrases like: “Mr. President, manage the departure of our children from Ukraine” or “we want our children back.”
There were also white balloons. Many of them with tears and impotence They call for immediate action.
Ecuadorian in Ukraine: We were about 50 meters underground. We left with our backpack carrying food, water, documents and we stayed to wait.
Without help according to relatives
Magaly Cañar is the mother of Carla Tamayo, who went two years ago to Ukraine, to Kiev, to study medicine.
assured that the government has not given them any help and she is alone.
“All the boys they are moving on their ownby their own means, to Poland, trying to get there, without money (…) they are trying to go to the border, to Poland”, he said about the last communication with her.
He added that his displacement is walking and they have to take shelter where they can when the curfew starts.
Anderson Lamina, 20, son of Ximena Gallardo, is in Vinnytsia. He studies to be a commercial pilot.
With anxiety and uncertaintystated that his son does not receive help.
“We are devastated. My son went there to have a better future because there are no study opportunities here, there is no way to enter or go to university if it is not in a paid one”, he pointed out.
Anderson was holed up in the dorm basement where do you live.
At night they could go out, because they have been told that there would be buses and take them to the border.
Your wish is return to Ecuador.
No opportunities in the country
Crying Gloria Portilla He said that his son Marlon Mañay left with illusions since in Ecuador there are no job opportunities and experience is required. He studied electronics at the University of the Armed Forces (ESPE). He left because he couldn’t find a job. He went looking for a specialty. He made a credit, he counted.
He is in Kharkov, inside a bunker with six Ecuadorians and other foreigners. They had a supply of water.
He maintained that they have tried to contact the Foreign Ministry delegation in Ukraine, but they have not succeeded.
Wondered how he’s gonna get to the border if there are no trains, there is no mobility or he would have to risk arrest.
“We sit with our hands crossed,” he said.
Criticism of the Foreign Ministry
Fabian Ventimilla It also goes through difficult times. Her son Brandon, 17, He is in Vinnytsia with 25 other people, refugees in a bunker, hoping to reach Poland, which is 8 hours from that city, but there is no mobility for a humanitarian corridor to exist due to the internal commotion.
The concern is when arriving in Poland who is going to receive them and where they are going to go.
questioned the management of the Chancellery.
“If they don’t know how to operate in this, the minister should already set foot outside and let a person who knows how to handle the situation practically take, there are 800 lives of Ecuadorians who are there and who until now are leaving as they can, on trains, in private cars, walking, without having any response from the Government, “he added. .
Lasso affirmed that it is a priority of the Government ‘to bring Ecuadorians who are in Ukraine’
Foreign Ministry says there were evacuations
Juan Carlos Holguin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, assured that in the last few hours it has been possible to evacuate to the border “dozens” of Ecuadorians without specifying an exact figure, as he cited security issues. In Ukraine there are about 700 nationals, according to government data.
The evacuation Contingency Plan, added – in an interview in WQ radio-began on Thursday and this Friday, several of the compatriots are, above all, in Poland.
That country, along with Slovakia and Hungary, is one of those that allows income of Ecuadorians without Schengen visa.
The official pointed out that along with the International Red Cross works for the implementation of humanitarian corridors in some cities like Kiev and proceed at the safe time with the transfers.
Holguin referred to a phase 2, after the transfer to safe borders, which would consist of the voluntary decision of each one to return to Ecuador or not.
He indicated that in the last hours they issued more than 125 emergency passports.
In Russia -he mentioned- also there is an emergency operation to transfer Ecuadorians to the interior of the country who are at the border.
Vladimir Putin calls on the Ukrainian army to carry out a coup against the Zelensky government, which he called a “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”
fruitless meeting
A family delegation He entered the Palacio de Carondelet, after 09:30 this Friday, February 25, to talk with authorities, but after about two hours of meeting, they left with obvious annoyance.
Alex Rengifo, one of the people who entered the government headquarters, maintained that they don’t see clear answers, they have made them pass the timeand they hoped to go to Carondelet so that President Guillermo Lasso would receive them, but he was carrying out his activities outside the city.
Among the requests are: valid passports, that there is transportation, that there is security in the humanitarian corridors, to deliver safe-conducts and economic resources so that they have protection.
His daughter, Daniela, 24 years old, he was a month away from graduating in Languages, he said.
The relatives of the Ecuadorians announced that will continue with your requests to the Executive. (I).
Source: Eluniverso
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