About 800 Residents of Ukraine arrived in Tambov region since the beginning of the armed confrontation in this country, informs on Tuesday the administration of the region.

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian Federation has greatly increased since June amid fighting between supporters of independence of Donbass and the Kyiv security forces. Daily Russian border is crossed by several thousand people. In the reception of immigrants involved over 40 Russian regions. In Tambov region yesterday arrived 120 immigrants who were put in the may and Rasskazovsky areas.

" Total area of the region at the moment there are more than 800 Residents Of the South-East of Ukraine, who left the country during the military actions ", - is informed in the report. The overwhelming majority Of them arrived in the region on its own.

The whole region is ready to accept up to 1, 2 thousands of immigrants From Ukraine. For their placement opened 17 points.

From first arrived in the region of the people of Ukraine About 100 people expressed the desire to find a job. One part will come to work in the sanatorium, which have accepted them, other - at the poultry farm in Inzhavino district of the region. Children and adolescents will be allocated more than 50 seats in kindergartens, schools and specialized secondary schools.

according to the information of the children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, the number of Ukrainian immigrants, officially having an account in Russia exceeds 167 thousand people. The office of the high Commissioner of the United Nations on Affairs of immigrants said on the first day of the week that the Russian Federation has moved over 100 thousand people, over 50 thousand refugees in Ukraine.

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