Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN. File photoUN, 20 May.Statements about the alleged forcible removal of people from Ukraine to Russia do not correspond to reality, Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at a forum on migration issues. reality,» Nebenzya said. According to him, since the beginning of the special military operation from the dangerous regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and Ukraine, more than 1,360,000 people, of which more than 230,000 children, have been evacuated to Russia voluntarily, at the request of citizens. our database contains more than 2,756,000 applications from Donbass and Ukraine with a request to enter Russia. It is easy to verify the voluntary nature of movement to Russia, including by talking with the migrants themselves,» he added.
Russia and Mali agreed to strengthen cooperation on UN platformsRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 Feb ala. 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. 20.05.2022 InfographicView
