The Federal Government has actually revealed that it will leave stranded Nigerians from Ukraine from Wednesday.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known during an appearance before Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, including that the government has actually concluded strategies to air-lift the first batch of Nigerians on Wednesday.

The Speaker said your house of Representatives would offer every required assistance to the Ministry to guarantee successful evacuation of Nigerians stranded from Ukraine.

Gbajabiamila restated the position of the legislature when he invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Onyeama, to his workplace in Abuja on Monday for a meeting on the plight of Nigerians captured in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Onyeama said the evacuation earlier planned for Monday was rescheduled for Wednesday to enable the ministry, your home, and the Nigerian foreign missions in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia to complete the procedures of moving Nigerians from Ukraine to safe borders with surrounding nations.

Onyeama said the ministry, in conjunction with the missions, had actually completed procedures for Nigerians to relocate to safe border points from where they would be transferred in buses to the airports in surrounding countries.

He noted Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and even Russia, amongst the countries to be used as exit points.

The Minister disclosed that there were about 5,600 Nigerian students in Ukraine, included that there were likewise non-students, some of whom may not have been lawfully documented.

He guaranteed the Speaker that working carefully with the federal governments of those nations had secured their cooperation with the ministry to grant access to Nigerians into their territories, preparatory for the evaluation.