MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. More than 15,000 people, including some 1,800 children, were evacuated from dangerous regions in Ukraine, and from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to Russia during the day, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Monday.
"Despite the difficulties and obstacles created by Kiev, during the day, as many as 15,215 people, including 1,806 children, were evacuated from dangerous zones in various Ukrainian regions, and from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to Russia without any participation of Ukraine’s authorities," he said. "Since the beginning of the special military operation, as many as 1,556,258 people, including 254,270 children, have been evacuated."
According to Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, 3,201 private cars crossed the Russian border on Monday and 221,373 since the beginning of the operation.
He also said that more than 9,500 temporary accommodation centers continue to operate in Russian regions.
Apart from that, in his words, more than 80 evacuation requests were received during the day from Ukrainian and foreign citizens who want to be evacuated to Russia. "During the day, the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, federal executive bodies, Russian regions and various public organizations received 85 requests from foreign and Ukrainian nationals for the evacuation to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic, and to Russia-controlled territories in the Zaporozhye, Nikolayev, Kharkov, and Kherson regions," he said, adding that the database has 2,757,157 such requests from 2,137 Ukrainian settlements.