More than 114 thousand residents of Donbass moved to other regions of the country because of the fighting in their own region, informs on Tuesday, the state service of Ukraine on emergencies.

" From the area (special operations) in other regions relocated 114 983 thousand people, and among them 39 111 thousand children, 16 629 thousand of persons with disabilities and the elderly, according to the report.

for the past day moved 853 person, and among them 238 children, 70 persons with disabilities and the elderly.

It also says that on the border areas of special operations, the state service for emergency situations unfolded 7 transit points for meetings immigrants.

The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century, said yesterday that the number coming from 1 April to the site of the Russian Federation Residents of Ukraine exceeded 775 thousand people.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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