Ukrainian MP denies his statement about 150,000 IDPs returning to occupied territories

Maksym Tkachenko, a Ukrainian MP from Servant of the People party, has described his own recent statement about the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) returning to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as his own assumption. 

Source: Maksym Tkachenko in a comment to Ukrinform news agency 

Quote from Maksym Tkachenko: "I made an incorrect statement, so I want to refute my words. There is no such data. It was my unfounded and emotional assumption."

Details: MP says there are some cases when Ukrainians are forced to travel to the temporarily occupied territories for various reasons, ‘but we are not talking about hundreds or even tens of thousands, and there can be no general-verified statistics, even theoretically.’

Background: Earlier, Tkachenko said in an interview with Ukrinform news agency that about 150,000 IDPs had returned to the temporarily occupied territories, including up to 70,000 who came back to temporarily occupied Mariupol.

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