MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. More than 2.7 million Ukrainians are asking Russia to be evacuated from Ukraine, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.

"According to the results of daily monitoring, as many as 7,223 such requests were received in the past day alone. In all, our database has 2,711,319 names and addresses from 2,093 settlements in Ukraine," he said.

Most of people who are forcibly kept by radicals in Ukrainian cities, continue to look for possibilities to be evacuated to Russia, he noted.