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Russia receives 117 requests for evacuation from Ukraine in past day - Defense Ministry

To date, 2,754,963 applications from 2,135 populated localities of Ukraine are in the database, said Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. A total of 117 requests from Ukrainians asking to evacuate them to Russia, the Donetsk or Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Ukrainian areas controlled by the Russian Armed Forces, have come in on a hotline of the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in the past 24 hours, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.

"In the past 24 hours alone, 117 requests have been received from Ukrainian citizens asking to evacuate them to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and those areas in the Zaporozhye, Nikolayev, Kharkov and Kherson Regions that are controlled by the Russian Armed Forces," said Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.

To date, 2,754,963 applications from 2,135 populated localities of Ukraine are in the database, he said.