EMERCOM brings over 400 Ukrainian refugees to stationary accommodation centers

Russia July 16, 2014, 21:41

As of Wednesday morning, almost 25,000 Ukrainian refugees were staying at 367 temporary refugee camps set up in Russian regions

MOSCOW, July 16. /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian Emergency Ministry delivered about 115 Ukrainian refugees from Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, to Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Wednesday evening.

“Buses will take them to temporary refugee centers in the Ryazan region,” Alexander Drobyshevsky, an official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, told ITAR-TASS.

He said that another Emergencies Ministry plane would fly from Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, to Simferopol to pick up more than a hundred Ukrainian nationals. They will be delivered to the town of Ivanovo, located 245 kilometers away from Moscow.

Drobyshevsky told journalists that automobile columns would take another 200 Ukrainian refugees from Russia’s Rostov region to Volgograd, a city on the banks of the Volga River.

According to figures, which the Russian Emergencies Ministry had on Wednesday morning, almost 25,000 Ukrainian refugees were staying at 367 temporary refugee camps set up in Russian regions. On Wednesday, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov inspected temporary refugee camps in the Rostov region.

He visited a field refugee tent camp near the Russian border town of Donetsk. The minister said that the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations had another 400 stationary temporary accommodation centers — such as hotels and rest homes — in reserve where Ukrainian refugees could be quartered. Besides, the Emergencies Ministry has an opportunity to set up additional field refugee camps if necessary.

“We are gradually accommodating people at stationary places of sojourn. Today, planes will carry refugees to Bashkortostan, the Vladimir region and other parts of Russia,” Puchkov stressed.

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