Aside from the 21 rescued seafarers in Chornomorsk in southwestern Ukraine, there are around 200 Filipino seafarers who are stranded in various ports in Ukraine near the Black Sea, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Philippine Ambassador to Hungary Frank Cimafranca said they have identified…
SAFE ARRIVAL. Honorary Consul Victor Gaina of the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Chisinau, Moldova in a selfie with a Filipino who arrived safely at the Moldovan border after evacuating from Ukraine. The Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday (Feb. 28, 2022) said a total of six Filipinos arrived in Moldova from Ukraine, with four to travel to Romania where they will take their repatriation flight to Manila. (Photo courtesy of DFA) MANILA - The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday confirmed the arrival of six Filipinos at the Republic of Moldova after their evacuation from Ukraine. In a statement, the DFA said the evacuees include a fourth-year medical student at the Bukovinian State Medical University, two Filipinos married to Ukrainians (one of whom traveled with her two-year-old son), and two Filipinos working for an international organization who managed to cross the Moldovan border. Their safe arrival, it said, was made possible with help from Honorary Consul Victor Gai