MOSCOW, May 19 — RIA Novosti. Over the last day, the Russian Ministry of Defense evacuated 17,693 people, including 2,371 children, from the dangerous areas of the DPR, LPR and Ukrainian territories controlled by the Kiev regime, head of the Inter-ministerial Coordination Office of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response — Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, General Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev.
“Despite all the difficulties that Kyivover the last day, without the participation of Ukrainian authorities, from dangerous regions of the republics Donbass and Ukraine 17,693 people, including 2,371 children, have been evacuated on the territory of the Russian Federation, and 1,360,619 people have been evacuated since the beginning of the special military operation, 230,267 of whom are children, Mizintsev said.
