MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. More than 3.5 million people born in the Donbass republics and in the liberated parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are now living in other Russian regions, Olga Makeyeva, Ambassador of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) to Russia, told TASS on Tuesday.
"We know that more than 3.5 million people who were born in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic and in the liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are living in Russia now," she said, adding that this figure is constantly changing.
"People are migrating, moving in with their relatives, from one place to another. Some are returning home," she explained.
The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions in late September held referendums on the accession to Russia. The overwhelming majority of voters were in favor of such a step. Following the referendums, Russian President Vladimir Putin and heads of these regions signed treaties on their accession to Russia. On October 4, Putin signed laws on the ratification of these treaties.