A Private Company Has Evacuated 6,500 People From Ukraine
President Joe Biden repeatedly made clear that he would not send American troops to evacuate people stuck in Ukraine at risk of sparking a “world war.”
That doesn’t mean evacuations aren’t happening. But they’ll cost you.
, a private security firm, has evacuated more than 6,500 people from Ukraine over the past month, according to Dale Buckner, a former Green Beret who owns the firm. Buckner said Global Guardian completed 12 missions on Sunday and another nine on Monday. He said evacuations may be hitting their peak as the Russian invasion of Ukraine extends to its third week.
“You could literally sense the corporate headquarters went from thinking, ‘We won’t have to address our local national employee base’…to, ‘Oh God, this is real and the Russians are coming’,” he said. “People that thought they were going to stay in places like Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava, and Odessa are now realizing they don’t have a choice. They need to get out of the way because the reality has hit that they’re going to get cut off.”
Clients can subscribe to a membership with Global Guardian, which provides pre-trip threat briefings, help with lost documents while traveling, access to emergency evacuations, and 24/7 support in case of a terrorist attack, political crisis, or natural disaster.
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