Sixteen Georgian citizens remaining in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul are traveling back home, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili posted on Facebook.

Those individuals have been evacuated via a British charter flight, said Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandre Khvtisiashvili, adding that the British plane will land in Dubai. However, they may return home via London later today due to coronavirus regulations.

A total of twenty-two Georgian citizens, all former soldiers who worked for Canadian and American companies, were in Kabul.

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said every Georgian is safely on the way home out of Kabul. She thanked Georgia’s partners who helped with their evacuation.

Every Georgian is safely on the way home out of Kabul!

We are grateful to our partners ?? ?? ?? who helped with their evacuation.

With the situation still very concerning, I express my solidarity with our partners handling the evacuation process.

— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) August 20, 2021

Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani also thanked partner countries for their “timely assistance and huge contribution to safely bringing citizens back from Afghanistan to their homeland.” ​

Immensely grateful to our true friends and partners – ?????? for their timely assistance and huge contribution to safely bring ?? citizens back from #Afghanistan to their homeland. Your support in such complicated moments is very much appreciated! @StateDept @MFATurkey @FCDOGovUK

— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) August 20, 2021

Georgia kicked off the withdrawal of its citizens from Kabul after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.