 Meanwhile, the airpiece as it has deployed its aircraft to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Europe as a result of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Spokesman of the carrier, Stanley Olisa, said that deployment is the first batch of Nigerians to be evacuated since the war broke out. The federal government engaged the airpiece and another airline to evacuate over 2,000 Nigerian nationals from neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia fleeing the war in Ukraine following the Russian invasion.