Refugees from Kharkov near the temporary accommodation center in the village of Malinovka in the Belgorod regionMOSCOW, Apr 10 Already more than 714 thousand refugees from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine have crossed the state border of Russia since the beginning of the escalation of the military conflict, among the refugees there are more than 137 thousand children, a representative of emergency services told RIA Novosti. 714,345 people, including 137,775 children,» the agency's interlocutor said. He also added that 19,109 people crossed the Russian border in a day. 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 «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. And he liked it
