The Russian Emergencies Ministry announced that the number of refugees from Donbass and Ukraine to Russia has exceeded half a million people.
“Since the beginning of the escalation of the military conflict, 529,347 people have already crossed the border into Russia, including 107,065 children,” a statement by the Russian Emergencies Ministry said today, Thursday, the 31st of March 2022.
A large-scale evacuation of the civilian population from the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk began against the background of the special military operation in Ukraine announced by Russia in the middle of last month with the aim of protecting civilians in Donbass from the practices of extremists and Nazis in Ukraine.
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