Austria takes six seriously injured – including three children – from Ukraine for treatment. The injured, who suffered severe burns in Wednesday’s helicopter crash at a kindergarten near Kiev, will be taken to Austria and treated in hospitals in Vienna, Linz and Graz, the Federal Chancellery confirmed on Friday evening.
The evacuation, agreed with the Ukrainian health ministry on Thursday, began Friday. The three girls, aged between five and seven, as well as two mothers and a father will be transferred to Austria in the coming days.
The injured should be ventilated with oxygen
According to the Federal Chancellery, all injured are conscious, but must be ventilated with oxygen. The evacuation of the seriously injured was organized by the Ukraine Refugee Coordination Unit of the Ministry of Interior.
In a statement, Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) thanked the hospitals in Austria for “being so quick to accept and treat the victims”. Since the outbreak of the Russian offensive war, the civilian population in Ukraine has experienced much suffering and misery.
“I am happy if we can help where innocent children, mothers and fathers are affected in such a particularly terrible way,” said Nehammer, who was “particularly affected as a family man” by the “terrible images of the destroyed kindergarten”.
The cause of the helicopter crash that killed 14 people on Wednesday – including Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyj – is still unclear. The helicopter crashed near a kindergarten where children were being taken to kindergarten by their parents.
Source: Krone
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