Astakhov: the number of Ukrainian immigrants in the RF exceeded 150 thousand
The number of officially have an account in Russia immigrants from Ukraine exceeded 150 thousand people, said the representative on the rights of the child under the RF President Pavel Astakhov.
last Saturday, the Ombudsman stated that, according to regional representatives, in 44 Russian regions arrived 149, 9 thousands of immigrants, about 39 thousand of them are hosted in the temporary stay and among them more than fifteen thousand children. At the same time on the first day of the week, Commissioner of the Ministry of emergency situations informed that in temporary accommodation centres are more than 17 thousand immigrants.
" Already 48 Russian regions officially accept, register and post immigrants. The number of officially registered immigrants according to the information collected from the regions of the Russian Federation, authorized on the rights of the child, has exceeded 150 thousand ", - he wrote in his own microblog on Twitter.
The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine in Russia has greatly increased since June against the background of ongoing fighting between supporters of independence of Donbass and Ukrainian law-enforcers.
The Ukrainian authorities since April carry out a military operation against supporters of independence in the South-East of the country, which resulted in the losses suffered by both sides, and killed civilians. Russia has called this operation punitive and demanded her to stop.