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Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) plans to extract as soon as possible four of its A320-200s trapped in Ukraine following the closure of the country's airspace to all civilian flights following the Russian invasion.

"We will be evacuating, at the earliest opportunity, the four aircraft (three in Kyiv and one in Lviv) we have based on the ground,” a Wizz Air spokesperson confirmed to ch-aviation.

According to Flightradar24 ADS-B data, three Wizz Air A320-200s are stuck at Kyiv Igor Sikorsky. They are HA-LWY (msn 6058) which had arrived on February 23 from Milan Malpensa (Italy); HA-LPJ (msn 3127) from Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (Germany); and HA-LPM (msn 3177) from Budapest (Hungary). Another A320-200, HA-LWS (msn 5608), is grounded at Lviv.

“The safety and security of our passengers and crew remain our number one priority and we hope normality will return to Ukraine soon," Wizz Air said in a statement.

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