“According to the data of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters, as of July 12, since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, 2,497,432 people have been evacuated to Russia from the dangerous regions of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR, of which 392,890 are children.
All these people left for our country voluntarily, saving their lives and the lives of their children," TASS quoted him as saying.
He stressed that all accusations of the Ukrainian side are groundless.
“We categorically reject the unfounded allegations that the Russian authorities are kidnapping children,” Polyansky said.
Earlier, Polyansky said that the Russian side would hand over to the UN Secretary General António Guterres materials on the inclusion of the data of 327 children in the database of the Ukrainian website "Peacemakers".