Two repatriation flights chartered directly by the European Commission landed in Polish capital Warsaw on Thursday, bringing back 303 European citizens who were stranded in the Middle East.
This adds to the more than 70 flights coordinated by the EU's Emergency Response Coordination Center, which together brought more than 8,000 European citizens home from the war-torn region to Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Sweden.
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