Border guards in helmets and physique armor policed a row of barricades blocking them from coming into the nation. Ukraine has been closed to foreigners since August.
The pilgrims have been given meals and water, the Ukrainian border service stated.
Avraham Shapira, an Israeli pilgrim who’s on the border along with his kids, advised CNN that he’d booked a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Kiev 4 weeks in the past, as a result of he heard the border could be closed.
When he bought to the airport, he stated, the flight was canceled and he booked new tickets to Kiev through London. In London, his subsequent flight was canceled too, however he was capable of ebook a ticket to Belarus.
He praised the Belarus authorities for offering “all of the companies” wanted by the pilgrims crossing the border, saying the Belarusians have provided to offer buses to carry the pilgrims on to Uman, keep two days and return to Belarus.
Shapira added the group wouldn’t “see any citizen of Ukraine. It isn’t a hazard for anyone. I come to hope for the world, I do not come to hope just for me.”
“Our nation is able to take accountability on all these features and, in fact, set up the method as safely as attainable, as an example it won’t have an effect on the scenario with the Covid illness fee,” stated President Alexander Lukashenko’s press secretary Natalia Eismont stated in a press release.
