A woman says goodbye to her child during the evacuation from Gorlovka to Russia. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 9About two million people from Ukraine have asked to be evacuated to Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.
"With requests to be evacuated to Russia Approximately 2 million people applied. About 140,000 people have already crossed over to Russian territory,” she said.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the «demilitarization and denazification» of the country, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for the «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. >
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