“Despite all the difficulties created by official Kyiv, over the past 24 hours, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,660 people, including 3,607 children, were evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the Donbass republics,” he said.

Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian authorities ordered to carry out punitive raids in Nikolaev to identify pro-Russian citizens.

As a result of the shelling of Horlivka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a civilian was killed, ten more people were injured.