Local residents await evacuation on a street in Severodonetsk. File photoMOSCOW, June 18Russia in a day without the participation of Kyiv was able to evacuate 29.7 thousand people from dangerous regions of Ukraine and Donbass to its territory, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. «Despite all the difficulties created by the Kyiv authorities, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian side, 29,733 people, including 3,502 children, were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the republics of Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation,» Mizintsev said at a briefing. He specified that since the beginning of the special operation, more than 1.936 million people have been evacuated which are more than 307 thousand children. More than 288,000 private vehicles crossed the Russian border. The head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation recalled that more than 9,500 temporary accommodation centers operate in the constituent entities of the country. Arriving refugees are assisted in resolving issues related to further accommodation, assistance in finding employment, providing children with places in kindergartens and educational institutions, as well as providing social benefits and benefits.
Miroshnik: in order to evacuate from Azot, it is necessary to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lysychansk»Over the past day… 52 appeals have been received… with requests for evacuation to Russia, on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as to Russian-controlled Armed Forces districts of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. In total, the database contains 2,758,298 such appeals from 2,139 settlements of Ukraine and the territories of the Donbass republics controlled by the Kyiv authorities,» Mizintsev added. He also said that in the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny remain blocked by 70 foreign ships from 16 states. They cannot go to sea because of the threat of shelling and high mine danger created by Kyiv. Ukraine on 18.06.2022InfographicView
