Russia states it has deported more than 1,100 children from Ukraine over the past 24 hours
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 00:52
Russian media stated that 8,787 people have been deported from Ukraine over the past 24 hours, including 1,106 children.
Source: Russian media outlet TASS
Quote: "The head of the National Defence Management Centre of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that 8,787 people had been evacuated from dangerous areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and Ukraine over the past 24 hours without the participation of the Kyiv authorities. 1,106 of the evacuees are children."
Details: TASS also reports that a total of 1,208,225 people have been deported to Russia since the beginning of Russia's war in Ukraine. 210,224 of them are minors.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, 156,651 cars passed through the Russian border, including 1,887 cars over the past 24 hours.
Background: The Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, stated that Russian aggressors had forcibly deported over 30,000 Mariupol residents to Russia.
