More than 30 Americans had been safely evacuated out of Ukraine’s capital as of early Friday by the Tampa-based Project Dynamo.
Roughly 300 requests for evacuation out of Ukraine had been received by the group as of Friday, totaling roughly 1,000 American citizens and lawful permanent residents.A map showing the different Ukrainian cities threatened by Russian forces.People sit in a bus as they arrive at the border crossing between Poland and Ukraine on Feb. 25.received a surge in calls for help since Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The group started inserting team members into Ukraine in January to start planning rescue operations after President Joe Biden’s administration made clear the government would not be rescuing American stuck in the country, Judge said. Coordination for the rescue operation then intensified last week after the US State Department evacuated diplomatic personnel and left the US Embassy, according to the Tampa-based nonprofit.A woman feeds a child as people fleeing Ukraine arrive in Slovakia on Friday.People queue to donate blood for the army at the Blood Service Center in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.“This is what Dynamo does and does better than anyone else,” Judge said in a statement Thursday.
The group’s moniker is a nod to the codename issued to the British evacuation operation of Dunkirk, France, in 1940 during World War II.
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