An aircraft from Beirut with 20 people evacuated from Syria on board has landed at the Boryspil International Airport at 2016 Kyiv time on October 16.

The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Oleksandr Dykusarov, told Interfax-Ukraine that 19 citizens of Ukraine and one Syrian national arrived to the capital of Ukraine on board of the aircraft.

So far, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has helped to evacuate from Syria 471 Ukrainian citizens and 41 foreign nationals, including 17 Poles, 17 Syrians, and seven Belarus citizens, as of the beginning of the years.