More than a million immigrants from Ukraine are on the territory of the Russian Federation, said the Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the issues of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.

" in General the difficulties already about a million people left the territory of Ukraine in the direction of the Russian Federation, located on the Russian territory, " he said on air

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has increased greatly since June amid fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security.

Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN fifteen October, victims of the military conflict in the East of Ukraine became More 3, 7 thousands of civilians, More than 9 thousand were injured body.

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