250-300 per day Ukrainians Express a desire to become participants of the state program for voluntary resettlement of compatriots in Russia, said Thursday the head of the Federal migration service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky.

"every day the number of Ukrainians that joined in the program, increases by 250-300 people," - said Romodanovsky at the meeting of the government of the Russian Federation. He noticed that the FMS cope with the situation.

The state program on assistance to resettlement of compatriots from abroad was approved in 2006 by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation. In September 2012 released a new version of the program.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the republics. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 7, 9 thousand people. The first of September in the Donbass started another ceasefire, which the parties to the conflict agreed during the meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine, held on 26 August in Minsk.

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