About 3.4 thousand people have left the DPR since the beginning of the evacuation

This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Alexei Kostrubitsky at a meeting with the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

“As of today, 3,384 people have already been evacuated, these people have been evacuated both by bus and by personal transport,” Interfax quoted him as saying.

According to him, it is planned to evacuate from 500 to 700 thousand people.

Earlier, the head of the DPR, in an address to residents, said that in connection with the dangerous situation in the Donbass, from February 18, the departure of the population to Russia was organized.