After Kabul fell, Ukraine’s giant Ilyushin military planes were among the first to arrive to help with the evacuation. People who were evacuated from Kabul arrive on a Ukranian military flight at the airport in Boryspil, outside Kyiv, Thursday, Sept 23, 2021. Brendan Hoffman/The New York TimesThe plane returned to Kyiv before heading back to Kabul on Sept 19. There it sat while the team on the ground and officials in Ukraine conducted tense negotiations with an ever-changing cast of Taliban officials — each claiming to be the person in charge. The GUR leadership and other top Ukrainian officials plan to study the mission and determine how to make future runs to Kabul operate more smoothly.

Source: bd News24 September 26, 2021 10:30 UTC