The veteran Dominican ambassador in Moscow, Hans Danenberg Castellanos moved fast to ensure that Dominicans studying in Russia in the newly affected area of Rostov-on-Don be safe.
The Dominican ambassador to Russia Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, told the Diario Libre that there were at least three Dominican students in the war zone around the city of Rostov near the Don River. This is the area taken by the Wagner Group of mercenaries in their conflict with the Russian High Command.
Dannenberg Castellanos told the media he has been in contact with these students and advised them to remain in place. He said that the Embassy has advised students attending universities in Moscow to remain in the student housing until the situation becomes clearer.
Diario Libre reports that the Dominican Embassy in Russia requested that the three Dominican students in Rostov to be relocated. Since the on start of the belic actions from Rusia to Ukraine, the Dominican Embassy has been on alert. Dannenberg Castellanos says all students but those three had been evacuated from the Russian border areas with Ukraine.
The ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Russia, Hans Dannenberg, informed Diario Libre this Sunday that the three Dominican students of the Rostov State University of Medicine continue with the desire to be transferred to other universities within Russia, but not so close to the border with Ukraine, which would be to move them to Moscow or St. Petersburg.
“As an Embassy we have made that request to move the students we have left in that border area to other universities, there used to be more students in that area and they have been moving little by little,” he said.
He told Diario Libre: Dannenberg said that the request to move the students from that city bordering Ukraine was made to the Russian government and the Russian Ministry of Education.
“The foreign ministry in order to prevent any escalation of hostilities in that area on the border, which so far nothing has happened, we have requested from the very beginning to move those students to other universities farther away from the border,” he said.
The reaction came after the private army of mercenaries, employed by the Russian government in Ukraine, moved into the global spotlight with a dramatic rebellion against Russia’s military. In a first step, Wagner Group had taken over the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia.
The action that challenged the would seem monolithic authority of Putin. The rebellion that had directed the Wagner Group contracted soldiers toward Moscow would be promptly revoked and Jevgeny Prizgozhin, the chief of the Wagner Group, said he was moving to Belarus as part of the deal to defuse the military crisis.
AP says the Kremlin-allied Wagner Group had fought some of the deadliest battles in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. AP says that while the mercenary group revolt against Moscow went up in fizzles, it also exposed the vulnerabilities.
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26 June 2023