“Over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, evacuated 25,560 people to Russia from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and dangerous regions of Ukraine,” Mizintsev said.

According to him, there are 3,482 children among the evacuees, in total, 765,779 people have been evacuated since the start of the special operation, of which 144,105 are children.

Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the liberation of Mariupol from Ukrainian troops by 98%.