Today, February 15, an Air Arabia flight bringing 99 Moroccan students from Ukraine arrived at Tangier’s Ibn Battuta airport.

Moroccans will also be repatriated from Ukraine through two flights operated by Royal Air Maroc.

Morocco has also set up two phone numbers for students and citizens in Ukraine to contact the Moroccan embassy.

According to reliable sources to Morocco Telegraph about the matter, the embassy had received around 4,000 phone calls as of February 14.

Around 250 calls were made using the two phone lines supplied by the embassy in its Saturday announcement.

Many Moroccan students have expressed concerns about being caught in the middle of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, urging that their colleges switch to remote study. “These concerns are taken seriously by us, and they have been discussed.” However, the pupils’ safety comes paramount for the time being, according to the sources.

According to reports, Russia has begun to remove troops from Ukraine’s borders, indicating that the situation is largely stable.

The Russian Defense Ministry indicated today, according to The Guardian, that it will remove part of its troops from the Ukrainian border in a “potential de-escalation” action. “The scale of the pullout is uncertain,” the Guardian wrote, “and it may only involve a proportion of Russia’s forces on the Ukrainian border, which western sources estimate to be more than 60% of the country’s ground forces.”

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