The representatives of the crisis cell set up within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration made the necessary approaches to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Moldova, based in Kiev, and the Embassy of Romania and the U.S. Embassy in Chisinau and to other partner states from the region with a view to obtaining more information about the situation of the three Moldovan citizens captured in Afghanistan, IPN reports.
The Mi-17-1V helicopter of the Moldovan airline Valan provided civil aviation services for the Afghani security forces based on a contract signed with Aircraft Charter Solutions for the main contractor of the U.S. Government - MAG DS Corp.
It’s known that there were 18 Afghani citizens aboard alongside the three Moldovan crew members. It’s not clear it the Afghanis were military men, but they were to take part in terrorism fighting operations in Afghanistan. The aircraft was downed in the afternoon of November 24. The servicemen who went to the spot found four bodies. It is alleged that one of the dead is a Moldovan.
