Buses with refugees queue up to be checked at the filtration point. File photoMOSCOW, May 30 Over the past 24 hours, the hotline received 76 requests from citizens of Ukraine and foreigners about evacuation to Russia or to the areas of the special operation controlled by the Russian army, said the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response — Head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «Over the past day, the hotline of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, constituent entities of the Russian Federation and various public organizations received 76 appeals from foreign and Ukrainian citizens with requests for evacuation to the territory of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as to the areas of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions controlled by the Russian Armed Forces.In total, the database contains 2,757,072 such appeals from 2,137 settlements Ukraine,» Mizintsev said.
Russia deployed 37 more TAPs for refugees from Donbass and UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
