“Without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 15,837 people were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, of which 2,659 were children,” he said.
In total, since the start of the military special operation in Ukraine, 837,157 people have been evacuated, including 154,396 children.
Earlier it became known that the military personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense took out the first batch of refugees from the Ukrainian Izyum, about 100 people.