Civilians during the evacuation organized by soldiers of the military commandant's office of Severodonetsk together with the military of the LPR. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 23Russia has evacuated more than 31,000 people from dangerous areas of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in a day, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, said on Tuesday. 31,576 people, including 5,526 children, were evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation over the past day without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the republics of Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation, including 5,526 children, and a total of 3,604,987 people from of whom there are 576,127 children,» Mizintsev said. He specified that almost 610,000 private cars crossed the Russian border. Mizintsev said that more than 9,500 temporary accommodation centers for refugees operate in Russia. Also, according to him, more than 2.76 million applications were received from those wishing to evacuate from 2139 settlements of Ukraine and from the territory of the DPR controlled by the Kyiv authorities. >June 22, 17:18InfographicInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
