COLOMBO (News 1st); Ukrainian tourists visiting Sri Lanka have been severely inconvenienced by the current Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

As a result of this issue, they are currently resorted to staying at hotels in Bettota area and are unable to travel to their home country.

They are requesting that they be allowed to remain in Sri Lanka until the war situation in Ukraine is resolved.

The war in Ukraine has resulted in 198 people being killed with 3 of them being children and 1,115 wounded, with 33 of them being children.

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