Ukrainians pass the Moldovan-Ukrainian border through the Palanca checkpoint. Archival photoCHISINAU, May 22. In Moldova, 9234 cases of border crossing from Ukraine were recorded per day, according to the official website of the Border Guard Service of the Republic on Sunday. Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova reported that about 468 thousand refugees from Ukraine entered Moldova since the beginning of the Russian special operation, 7510 of them requested asylum. «As for the crossing of the border by citizens of Ukraine, in just a day (May 21-22) 9234 cases were recorded, of which 4230 — in the direction of entry into Moldova. At the same time, the number of minor Ukrainians amounted to 1400 people,» the border agency noted. On Sunday, Romanian border guards reported that more than 1,000 citizens of Ukraine entered the country through the checkpoint from Moldova 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 Kyiv 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.
