“Without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 14,982 people were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, of which 2,940 were children,” he said.
In total, since the beginning of the military special operation in Ukraine, 894,030 people have been evacuated, including 163,761 children.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Kiev authorities were preventing the evacuation of civilians from Ukraine to Russia.