Buses full of refugees . Archival photo MOSCOW, May 24. More than 17,500 people have been evacuated over the past day from dangerous regions of Ukraine and Donbass to Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing on Tuesday.» Despite all the difficulties created by Kyiv, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 17,586 people, including 2,246 children, have been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous areas of the Donbass and Ukraine republics, and in total since the start of the special military operation — already 1 444,565 people, of which 240,575 are children,» he said. Ukraine February 24th. 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. 24.05.2022 InfographicView
