Some 35,000 refugees from Ukraine remain in temporary accommodation facilities in Russia - Emergency Situations Ministry
MOSCOW July 30 (Interfax) - Some 35,000 refugees from Ukraine are currently in temporary accommodation facilities on the territory of Russia, Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said.
"A total of 480 temporary accommodation facilities, in which 34,755 people, including 12,507 children, are accommodated, have been deployed," Drobyshevsky told Interfax on Wednesday.
The crisis management centers of the Emergency Situations Ministry's territorial bodies have organized a round-the-clock hotline for refugees, which has already taken 4,799 calls (including 145 calls in the past 24 hours).
The Emergency Situations Ministry has organized flights to take refugees from Ukraine form the Rostov region, Crimea and Sevastopol, where they are arriving from Ukraine, to other regions of Russia.
Emergency Situations Ministry planes have carried 8,274 people, including 376 people in the past 24 hours. A total of 9659 people have been carried by ground transport (191 of these people were carried in the past 24 hours).
A total of 1,035 people have been carried by rail transport (484 of these people were carried in the past 24 hours).
The mobile hospital of the Emergency Situations Ministry's Southern Regional Search and Rescue Unit, which was deployed in Donetsk, Rostov region of Russia, on July 2, has now assisted 848 citizens, including 87 children (58 of these people were assisted in the past 24 hours).
Emergency Situations Ministry aviation and automobile transport have supplied over 1,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
