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Greek Consul General in Mariupol makes it to Athens
The Greek Consul General in Mariupol Manolis Androulakis arrived in Athens on Sunday evening (local time), following a high-risk operation to evacuate him. The humanitarian corridor for the evacuation begun …
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Looking for Athena in Ukraine as Russian bombs rain down
“I’ve lost touch, since then … I can’t reach her,” an emotional Bill Cotsis says to Neos Kosmos about his friend Athena, or Afina Khadzhynova. Bill Cotsis met Athena on …
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President of the Federation of Greek Associations of Ukraine cries for help
Mariupolthe President of the Federation of Greek Associations of Ukraine Alexandra Protsenko has voiced an appeal to Greeks around the world urging the community to mobilise. Ms Protsenko send out …
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Esacaping Kyiv “…for thirteen days all I heard was sirens, explosions, and shelling”
“We woke up on Thursday February 24 to the Russian invasion… for thirteen days all I heard was sirens, explosions, and shelling in and around Kyiv,” says Lana Nicole Niland …
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Ukrainian-Greeks in shock over their country’s agony
“It’s a feeling of permanent shock,” answered Anton Savidi when Neos Kosmos asked him how he was coping with events in his country, Ukraine where he and his pregnant wife are now …
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Maternity hospital in Mariupol hit as Greece tries to evacuate more civilians
Greece is currently running five operations to evacuate Greek citizens, their relatives, and other nationalities from Odessa, Kyiv and Mariupol on Greek-owned ships, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Alexandros Papaioannou stated …
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Russian Foreign Ministry calls Greece’s support of Ukraine ‘unacceptable’
Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, called Greece out in a statement highlighting an “anti-Russian information campaign …
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As sanctions begin to hurt Putin sends a veiled threat to end Ukrainian statehood
A ceasefire in and around the the city of Mariupol, home to many Ukrainian Greeks, which was to open a humanitarian corridor for the population of 450,000 has been postponed …
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Greek Ukrainians stand with their countrymen
At the beginning of the week, Mr Savidi, 29, was in Kyiv helping to organise supplies to the resistance within the city. The president of the Enotita, Nina Plechak-Paskal, was …
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Ukraine Greeks plea for help with 12 killed and more missing
With the official death toll of Ukrainian Greeks having risen to 12 to date, the resolve to resist the Russian invasion remains strong, community leader Anton Savidis told Neos Kosmos …