DPR NM fighters evacuate civilians from Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 15More than 23,000 civilians were evacuated to Russia over the past day from Donbass and Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said on Friday. 23,083 people were evacuated to Russia from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics without any participation of the Ukrainian side, from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, of which 2318 were children, and in total since the beginning of the special military operation — already 821,320 people, of which 151,737 children,” he said.
