Russian Foreign Ministry: the number of returning to Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of the conflict has exceeded the number of people leaving
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Viktor Sorokin, director of the CIS countries ’department of foreign affairs, said that for the first time since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Ukraine, the number of those returning to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions exceeded the number leaving the territories. Victor Sorokin quotes RIA News:
The ceasefire is maintained. Of course, provocations are always and will be. But such large-scale clashes, which we saw a few weeks ago, this is not there. We have data that for the first time the number of citizens who return, refugees to the eastern regions of Ukraine, has exceeded the number of citizens who leave Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This means that they have hope for the establishment of peace and the beginning of constructive work.
According to the Federal Migration Service, there are currently more than 2,5 million Ukrainian citizens in the Russian Federation. Of these, more than 225 thousands of people have sought asylum in Russia.
Meanwhile, the situation in the New Russia continues to be difficult. Ukrainian security forces do not stop shelling of Donetsk. On the eve of a direct hit of ammunition in a residential building killed a civilian. Five more Donetsk residents were injured.
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