About 19,000 people have been evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and Donbass to Russia in the past 24 hours, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Wednesday.
"Despite all the obstacles created by Kiev, 18,927 people, including 2,058 children, have been evacuated to the Russian Federation from dangerous areas of the Donbass republics and Ukraine in the past 24 hours, without any participation of the Ukrainian authorities," said Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, TASS reports.
According to Mizintsev, since the beginning of the special military operation (February 24), a total of 1,463,492 people, including 242,633 children, have already been evacuated.
"The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 201,708 private vehicles, including 2,286 in the past 24 hours," he noted.
