By 6 a.m. Wednesday, more than 96,000 residents of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” had crossed the border with the Russian Federation, recognizing them as independent states Russia, according to acting Minister of Emergency Situations Alexander Tsuprian.
Earlier, he said that after the recognition of the independence of the two provinces of Donbass from Russia, there was a relative reduction in the flow of refugees, who wanted to follow the urging of local leaders and be transferred to Russian territory after complaining that they accept increased fire. of the Ukrainian artillery from the early morning of 17 February.
According to the deputy speaker of the State Duma (Russian lower house) Anna Kuznetsova, among the refugees so far 31,000 are children and in fact about a thousand of them are orphans of the Ukrainian civil war, which has been developing in the region since 2014.
The Russian authorities have assured that temporary accommodation, care and financial assistance will be provided to all citizens of Donbass who wish to cross into Russian territory and be promoted to some of the Russian regions that have responded to the need and are receiving refugees, many of them of which they move to their relative families, living in Russia.
The reception of the refugees and the provision of the provisions was clarified that it is done regardless of their nationality or the absence of certificates. According to the chairman of the Russian State Duma Alexander Volodin, out of the estimated 4 million inhabitants of the wider region, 1.2 million have applied for Russian documents and more than 700 thousand have already received Russian identity.
His country’s willingness to accept refugees from Donbass and grant them Belarusian citizenship if they so wish was also expressed by the head of Belarus’s naturalization and immigration service, Alexei Begun, who said: “There will be and will be a flow of people through Russia,” he told Sputnik Belarus.
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