“Without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 10,715 people were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, including 1,723 children,” he said.
In total, since the beginning of the military special operation in Ukraine, 985,949 people have been evacuated, including 178,814 children.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Kyiv authorities were preventing the evacuation of civilians from Ukraine to Russia.
On April 25, the Ukrainian authorities again disrupted the evacuation of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.