MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. More than 50 people have called the Russian hotline, as well as government agencies or public organizations, in the past 24 hours asking to evacuate them from Ukraine to Russia, the Donetsk or Lugansk People’s Republics, or the Ukrainian areas controlled by the Russian army, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.

"In the past 24 hours, the hotline of the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, subjects of the Russian Federation and a wide range of public organizations have received 51 requests from foreigners and Ukrainian citizens, who are 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.

To date, 2,757,884 applications from 2,138 populated localities of Ukraine are in the Russian database, according to Mizintsev.