Stuck on vacation for an indefinite period.

Nearly a thousand Ukrainian tourists are stranded in the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar.

With Ukrainian airspace closed due to the Russian invasion, they cannot leave the country.

"The first thing we did was to make sure that they stay where they are, even if the time for them to leave had come," the archipelago's tourism minister, Lela Mohammed Mussa, said on Monday.

"We allow them to stay in hotels and be served as human beings," she added, assuring that they "will receive all services, comfort and remain free."

These hundreds of tourists are unable to return to their country, which closed its airspace to civilian flights on Thursday, citing "a high security risk" after the invasion of its territory by Russian forces.

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