More than 1, 2 thousand orphans were not evacuated from the zone of hostilities in Donbas, said on Sunday the Ombudsman under the RF President on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov.

" on the collected data, remain on the ground and were not evacuated More than 1,200 children-orphans ", - wrote Astakhov on his page in instagram.

As said by the Ombudsman on the rights of the child, in the area of military actions in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions are More than 60 different children's institutions for orphans and children left without parental care: children's home, the home of the child, boarding schools, shelters, family orphanage, where there are More 3, 3 thousand children.

" Kyiv authorities forbid to export and save the children-orphans and don't do it themselves, making the most vulnerable kids hostages of their political ambitions, " wrote Astakhov. Also, the Commissioner said that the volunteers managed to save and take out from under the shelling of a baby girl and her mother. Astakhov wrote that today They are already in Rostov, and tomorrow will be spent in the capital of Russia.

As was reported before, Pavel Astakhov, the Russian Federation is More than 201 thousands of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine, among them 28, 7 thousand children.


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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