About 60 thousand Ukrainians sought asylum application in the Russian Federation
About 60 thousand residents of the South-East of Ukraine has already applied for asylum in Russia, told reporters the head of the Federal migration service Konstantin Romodanovsky.
" for refugee status or temporary asylum asked about 60 thousand people, " Romodanovsky said.
The Minister reminded that the government decision on consideration of pleas for asylum in 3 days entered into force only recently, for this reason, the number of Ukrainians receiving this status, will quickly grow throughout the week. As long as the vast number of applicants for asylum are given the status of applicants.
Just FMS expects More than 100 thousand Ukrainians have the opportunity to apply for asylum.
The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian Federation has greatly increased since June against the background of ongoing fighting between supporters of independence of Donbass and the Kyiv security forces. According to the final data of the Russian authorities, since the beginning of the conflict was forced to leave the territory of Ukraine and are located on the area of the Russian Federation not less than 730 thousand Inhabitants. First it was claimed that at least 48 thousand of them apply for asylum.
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