19.5 thousand people evacuated to Russia from Ukraine and Donbass per day

Volchansk residents with many children and refugees queue for humanitarian aid. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 27.Without the participation of Kyiv, 19,598 people were evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine in a day without the participation of Kyiv, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Friday. «Despite all the difficulties created by the Kyiv regime, over the past 24 hours, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 19,598 people, including 2,629 children, have been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous areas of the republics of Donbass and Ukraine, and since the beginning of the special military operation — there are already 1,502,055 people, of which 247,458 are children,» he said at a briefing.