About five hundred immigrants from areas of the South-East of Ukraine arrive daily in the Crimea, said the head of the state Council of the Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov on Wednesday correspondents.

" The situation is very tense. About five hundred people every day arrives in Crimea, " Konstantinov said.

He added that the Republic will accept immigrants, despite the fact that before the region are other important tasks associated with maintaining the functioning of the Crimeans and the transition period.

" They are our compatriots, We will be assisted. The latter will give, but don't let that citizens are in poverty. We will help to refugees, which only can be ", - said the head of the Republican Parliament.

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian Federation has greatly increased since June amid fighting between supporters of independence of Donbass and the Kyiv security forces. In the reception of immigrants involved in dozens of Russian regions. MOE organized air bridges for delivery of displaced persons from Ukraine in the regions of our country.

Crimea became a Russian region After carried out on 16 March referendum in which the majority of citizens were in favour of joining the Russian Federation. Then began a deep restructuring of the social sphere of the Republic, now the accrual of pensions, salaries, benefits, training in universities and educational institutions, organization of medical aid, kindergartens and resort institutions must be conducted according to the Russian standards.


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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