Over 12,500 refugees from Donbass crossed the border with Russia in a day, according to the Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region.
“Over the past 24 hours, more than 12,500 citizens crossed the border to enter Russia through checkpoints located in the Rostov region,” the statement said.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed.
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