City residents before boarding a bus from Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, May 6. Over the past day, 17,419 people have been evacuated to Russia, including 2,449 children from dangerous areas of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine, in total, 1,147 have arrived on the territory of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the special military operation 374 people, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. Federation, 17,419 people have been evacuated, including 2,449 children. In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, there are already 1,147,374 people, of which 203,799 are children,» he said. The general stressed that more than 9.5 thousands of temporary accommodation points, equipped with everything necessary, where individual work is carried out with the arriving refugees and assistance is provided. Mizintsev stated that 169 citizens of Ukraine over the past day have expressed a desire to evacuate to Russia, a total of 2,754,846 such applications out of 2,133 settlements of Ukraine. According to him, this indicates that a significant part of the population forcibly held by radicals in Ukrainian cities is still looking for any opportunity to evacuate to Russia. />The wagon with humanitarian aid for the DPR and LPR left the Leningrad region
