“Without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 19,442 people were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, including 4,448 children,” he said.
In total, since the beginning of the military special operation in Ukraine, 1,021,871 people have been evacuated, including 187,636 children.
Earlier, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported the evacuation of 626 people from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoe in the Donetsk People's Republic per day.