Flight to Iraq for refugees cancelled

Several Telegram channels have spread information that the evacuation flight supposed to take refugees from Minsk to Iraq today has been cancelled. It’s no longer on the Minsk National Airport schedule.

Photo by Aleksandr Kulevsky

There is information that the special flight was cancelled by the decision of Iraqi Airways. It is unknown yet what will happen to the refugees who planned to use this flight to leave Belarus today.

As reported, the reason for the flight cancellation is the European Union’s failure to pay for it.