“Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on April 16 to 08:00 on April 17, 526 people, including 64 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky district,” the message says.

At the moment, the refugees are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.

For the period from March 5 to April 17, 18,955 people were taken to Bezymennoye.

Over the past day, 15,837 people have been evacuated to Russia from the DPR, LPR, and dangerous regions of Ukraine, 2,659 of them are children.