The number of Ukrainians returning from Russia Donbass, the first time exceeded the number of immigrants from the region, said the Director of the second Department of the CIS countries, Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Viktor Sorokin.
" The ceasefire is maintained, of course, provocation, there is always and will be. But such large-scale violence that we saw a few weeks ago, it is currently not. We have data that for the first time the Number of Residents who returned immigrants in the Eastern region of Ukraine exceeded the Number of Residents who leave the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This means that there is a chance of peace and the beginning of constructive work, " he said at a Council on the monitoring of the situation in Ukraine in the Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation on international Affairs.
The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has increased greatly since June amid fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security. Today, more than 225 thousand Citizens of Ukraine have sought asylum in the Russian Federation. According to the Federal migration service of the Russian Federation, currently in the country is 2, 6 million Ukrainians.
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