"A group of diplomats is heading to Ukraine to free imprisoned Ethiopian students."
A group of diplomats from the embassy in Berlin are on their way to Ukraine to free six Ethiopian students detained in war-torn Ukraine.
Ambassador Teferi Tadesse, Deputy Head of Mission at the Ethiopian Embassy in Berlin, told the BBC that a team of diplomats from the embassy had left for Ukraine on Wednesday morning.
Ambassador Teferi said the detained students were detained at the border trying to enter the EU (Schengen) countries eight or five months before the start of the war in Ukraine.
"Although the students have been arrested for their crimes, efforts are being made to support them and to release Lycee Passe," he said.
He said the trip began after talks with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Embassy in Addis Ababa.
The students spoke to the prison administrator by telephone on Wednesday morning, and Ambassador Teferi said he had given them permission to "bring the necessary information."
He added that a group of diplomats who had traveled to Ukraine would go to the prison and release the students.
He noted that students in Ukraine had left Ukraine and that they were taking advantage of the one-year EU offer to Poland and Germany.
"There are those who have been granted a residence permit. They do not want to return home. They just want to finish their education there," he said.
Earlier, the BBC spoke to students who had fled the war, saying that they had received daily support from volunteers and that they were in trouble.
Asked about this, the ambassador went to the Ukrainian-Polish border and talked to the leaders of the Ethiopian community in Poland and a committee has been formed to support the students.
"The embassy is monitoring the rights of citizens, helping them to cross the border, not monitoring the immigration process of every citizen to return to their homeland," he said.
There are thousands of students from various African countries studying in Ukraine, with the highest number being Moroccans (8,000), Nigeria (4,000) and Egypt (3,500) and a small number of Ethiopian students in Ukraine, according to the BBC.
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