“Over the past 24 hours, more than 21,000 citizens evacuated from the territory of the Donbass republics crossed the border through checkpoints,” TASS quotes the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Rostov region.

Earlier it was reported that the governor of the Saratov region Valery Radaev instructed to introduce a state of emergency in the region for the prompt organization of the reception of refugees from Donbass.