Extra flights out of Ukraine fill up ahead of feared invasion


FILE PHOTO: AirBaltic Airbus A220-300 plane YL-CSK painted in Lithuanian national colors takes off in Riga International Airport in Riga, Latvia January 17, 2020. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

RIGA AIRPORT (Reuters) - Latvian flag carrier airBaltic is setting up extra flights out of Kyiv this week to accommodate a passenger spike after European countries told their nationals to leave Ukraine or risk war.

"I did not feel calm in Kyiv, and my parents were worried. So I decided to go home to wait out the next few weeks, until things become clearer," Giedrius Paurys told Reuters after he and his wife disembarked from the extra Tuesday flight with four suitcases and two small dogs.

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