“Without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 18,849 people were evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine to Russia, including 2,359 children,” he said.
A total of 1,062,692 people, including 192,688 children, have been evacuated since the beginning of the military special operation in Ukraine.
Earlier, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported the evacuation of another 78 people from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoe in the Donetsk People's Republic.