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Some 8,000 Israelis remain in Ukraine with airspace now closed to civilian planes
Travelers wait at the check-in counters ahead of their flights at the Boryspil airport some 30 kilometres outside Kyiv on February 13, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP)
According to most recent estimates by the Foreign Ministry, some 8,000 Israelis remain in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Foreign Ministry have issued multiple calls for Israelis in Ukraine to immediately leave the country, warning that an outbreak of war would be “quick and severe.”
With Ukrainian airspace now closed to civilian aircraft, evacuations will only be possible by land.
Israeli diplomats serving in countries bordering Ukraine — Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova — have made preparations in recent days for a potential land evacuation of Israelis and Ukrainian Jews if necessary.
