200 thousand children from Ukraine were evacuated to Russia

Russia evacuated almost 200 thousand children from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and other neighboring regions of Ukraine to its territory. In total, 1,092,137 people crossed the border. About this, as RIA Novosti writes, said the head of the National Center for the Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Misintsev.

“Despite all the difficulties and obstacles created by Kyiv, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, from the dangerous areas of the” Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics “, Ukraine, 11,550 people, including 1847 children, were evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation, Ukraine. And from the beginning of a special military operation – already 1,092,137 people, of which 196 356 are children, ”he said at a briefing.