Refugees from Mariupol on the outskirts of the city. Archival photo UN, Mar 18 Russia is not yet able to evacuate everyone from Ukraine because of the position of the Kiev authorities, Vasily Nebenzya, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation in the organization, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. «Since the beginning of the special military operation over 2.5 million requests for evacuation to Russia have been received by the hotline of the Russian Defense Ministry. We regret to have to state that so far it has not been possible to evacuate everyone, because the Ukrainian authorities forbid them to do so,» Nebenzya said.
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