About 12 thousand immigrants arrived in Crimea on the South-East of Ukraine, where there are fights between the Ukrainian army and local militia, said Last news coordinator of the Crimean single coordination center for immigrant Affairs and humanitarian assistance Jean Krasutsky.

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has greatly increased since June against the background of ongoing fighting between supporters of independence of Donbass and Ukrainian law-enforcers. According to the information of the children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine ran over 55 thousand people, About fifteen thousand of them are children, but it only those who has been granted refugee status.

" Officially registered (as refugees) About 9 thousand people, plus about 3 thousand arrived in Crimea are not registered, " said Krasutsky. He noticed that for a stay of immigrants in the Republic more than 50 hotels and resorts, where people are given shelter, provide humanitarian assistance, food, Lekarstva and medical supplies, clothes and the necessities.

at the same time, According to Krasutski, the possibility of Crimea on the reception and accommodation of immigrants in practice exhausted, for this reason people decided to send for resettlement in other regions of Russia.

" in the day of Crimea flies 2 aircraft, the cabin that we send About 260 people, " - noticed the head of the Department. So, refugees already settled in Voronezh, Kursk, Lipetsk, Ivanovo, Cherkessk, Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

As said Krasutski, daily in Crimea arrives a few hundred people, mostly women, children and old people." The record became more 1 thousand per day, then we were horrified and realized that the situation was extremely hard, " He said. According to the coordinator of the center for immigrant Affairs in Crimea for help address not only the inhabitants of the South-East Ukrainian regions, but also Kiev and Western Ukraine, including Lviv, Uzhgorod, Ternopil, Chernivtsi.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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