Seriously ill Ukrainian girl airlifted by Air Corps to Cork for treatment

Simon Coveney said this mission is another example of Ireland providing what humanitarian assistance it can to both the Polish and Ukrainian authorities

The Air Corps CASA CN 235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft on the tarmac at Cork Airport after arrival with a 12 year old Ukrainian girl airlifted from Poznan in Poland for medical treatment in Cork. Pictures: Larry Cummins

A seriously ill Ukrainian girl has been airlifted to Ireland for specialist medical treatment.

The girl, 12, accompanied by her mother and two siblings, who all fled the Russian invasion, were on board an Air Corps flight from Poznan, Poland in the care of a HSE medical retrieval team which landed at Cork Airport this evening.