The situation of refugees from Ukraine does not disturb any country, except Russia, said the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov.
" according to the UN, Russia has been about 800 thousand immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine, according to expert estimates, about one million. In any other situation, I assure you, if it was not Ukraine, came the universe would howl on the issue of a humanitarian catastrophe. Here, too quiet. It seems that besides Russia that no one cares, " said Ivanov in an interview to " Rossiyskaya Gazeta ", which will be published on the first day of the week.
However, he said that If necessary, suffering people who had to leave their homes, Russia will help even harm yourself.
The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has greatly increased since June amid fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security. The main influx was on the border of the Rostov region, where more than 50 thousand Inhabitants of Ukraine. According to the Federal migration service of the Russian Federation, in the period from 1 April to about 820 thousand Citizens of Ukraine arrived in Russia and remained on its territory.
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