Russia last year took about one million immigrants from Ukraine, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov In.. "I note that the Russian Federation is the second in the world after USA with the number of people coming to us workers. Last year alone the Ukrainians immigrants from Donbass, we took about a million people ", - said the Minister at a press conference following the meeting with Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 4 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.