More than 7 thousand children from the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic will be able to relax in the territory of the Russian Federation in the near future, said at a press conference on Tuesday, the chief of staff of the head of DNR Maxim Leshchenko.

"in the near future, the first batch of children preparing to send to the rest in the Stavropol region, the Crimea and the Rostov region. The number of children is about 7500 people, children from large families, children of deceased freedom fighters, orphans", he said.

Leshchenko added that the rest day will be 21.

Children's Ombudsman DNR Jan Chepikova at the end of may stated that the DNR sent to rest in the Crimea the 1st batch of a hundred children.

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 were about 6, 5 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.

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