The convoy carrying the consul of Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, changed direction yesterday due to the very bad situation in Zaporizhzhya.
According to information, it was decided, because of the bombing, that the mission should not be directed there for its safety and another route to the west was chosen. It is hoped that by tomorrow evening it will have reached European soil.
What his father conveys
His father spoke to ANT1 about the operation to rescue the Greek Consul in Mariupoli, Manolis Androulakis, along with the OSCE mission.
As Mr. George Androulakis said, the mission is moving with three large buses and some accompanying private cars. He conveyed that, as his son told him, in total there are about 80 people in the convoy, mostly Ukrainian OSCE officials and their family members.
The father of the Greek consul in Mariupol said that on the phone, in the conversation they had late on Tuesday, Manolis Androulakis sounded cheerful and happy that he managed to be extricated from Mariupol, after many days of living in extremely difficult conditions, even with a lack of communication, as George Androulakis said, since there was not even telephone contact with him for most of the 24-hour period.
The father of the consul, who is continuing his journey to the west of Ukraine with the aim of crossing the border as soon as possible, also spoke with emotion about the dialogue on Mariupol that he had with our diplomat, whose attitude was praised yesterday by Nikos Dendias and Andreas Katsaniotis.
"When I asked him "Why didn't you leave with the journalists?", (several days ago, with the first evacuation operation from Mariupol), he replied "Father, and who is going to stay here? There are so many Greeks here..." and it moved me," he said."
Source: protothema.gr
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