The call for Britons to flee Ukraine as the threat of Russian invasion looms caused “quite a panic” and a rush to return home, according to a student who landed in the UK on one of the first commercial flights out of Kyiv since the warning. Passengers arrived at Gatwick Airport, south of London, on a direct flight from the Ukrainian capital shortly after noon on Saturday, just hours after the Foreign Office warned UK nationals in the country, thought to number in the low thousands, to “leave now while commercial means are still available.” Those returning suggested there were mixed signals about the level of concern in the country about the threat of war. Haider Ali spoke to the PA news agency after landing at Gatwick Airport from Kyiv on Saturday. He said: “I’d been in two minds about coming back because of the advice coming out by the …
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