A girl looks out the bus window before leaving Slovyansk. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 14The total amount of payments of 10,000 rubles to refugees from the DPR, LPR and the liberated territories of Ukraine has already exceeded 4 billion rubles, a spokesman for emergency services told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. In Russia, 320.79 thousand refugees received payments totaling 3 billion 207 million 900 thousand rubles, another 86.82 thousand people in Ukraine received 868 million 200 thousand rubles,» the agency's interlocutor said.
More than a thousand tons of humanitarian aid for refugees from Donbass were collected in Moscow. the evacuation of the civilian population began from the republics of Donbass against the backdrop of an escalation in mid-February. Subsequently, Russia recognized the independence of the DPR and LPR, and on February 24 launched a special military operation in Ukraine to demilitarize and denazify. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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.» Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages of Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kyiv authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
March 15, 11:57 InfographicsHumanitarian aid collection points for refugees from DonbassInfographicsView
