Ukrainian evacuation plane hijacked into Iran from Kabul: Reports
A minister in Ukraine claimed on Tuesday that an evacuation flight was hijacked from Afghanistan on Sunday and taken to Iran. However, the claims have been denied by both Ukraine and Iran.
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Yevgeny Yenin was quoted as saying by Russian news agency Taas that the plane was hijacked by “armed people”. He said that the plane was stolen from Ukraine and “flew into Iran with an unidentified group of passengers onboard”.
He, however, did not divulge more information about what happened to the flight.
Hours later, the authorities in Iran denied that any hijacked plane landed in the country. Ukraine too, officially rejected Yenin’s claim that the plane was hijacked.
