Russian PM confronts Kyiv on its false claim that Ukraine has not refugees in …
“People are frightened, scared. At the same time, the Ukrainian government fails to notice a humanitarian problem, says there are no refugees. It’s lies and it’s sad to hear that,” he said.
Russian PM Medvedev calls G7 attitude to Ukraine’s Armed Forces ‘cynical’
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed the G7 countries’ statement about “the restrained actions” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the country’s southeastern regions as “infinitely cynical”.
“The Ukrainian authorities are refusing to see any humanitarian problems. They are even speaking about the absence of refugees. It is a lie,” Medvedev said at a Russian government session on Thursday.
“The so-called G7 even dares to talk about the “restrained actions” of the Ukrainian army against its own people. Cynicism knows no limit in this case,” he said.
State of emergency in Rostov region of Russia due to influx of refugees from Ukraine
A state of emergency has been declared in Rostov region of Russia due to an influx of refugees from neighboring Ukraine. The new arrivals are currently being allocated to the local recreation centers, and the authorities help them with the processing.
The Rostov region authorities on Wednesday said they intend to instate a state of emergency as the local agencies are mobilizing to provide accommodations to a large number of refugees from Ukraine. People are fleeing en masse from the neighboring Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine where intense fighting between the Ukrainian military and local self-defense forces takes place.
Refugees are being greeted at the border and directed to the local recreation centers where the authorities assist them with the migrant processing procedure and provide them with the temporary residence permits. Two additional recreation centers were allocated as temporary refugee housing zones and could accommodate up to 550 people.
“We’ve provided shelter to 210 people: 122 children and 88 adults, including 15 elderly. These are mostly women and children from the cities of Slavyansk and Lugansk. Many of them have haven’t slept for 3-4 days,” said Andrei Vdovchenko, director of one of those recreation centers. “It was our governor’s decision to direct the refugees to our center for temporary housing and I completely agree with it,” he added. “Many of them are concerned about the well-being of their relatives back in Ukraine, so we’ve provided them with Russian SIM cards so they could call them.”
The refugees are provided with housing, food, basic necessities and access to counselling services, Vasily Golubev, governor of Rostov region, said. He also added that numerous NGOs and ordinary citizens have already applied to the regional government for assistance in providing shelter for women and children fleeing the Ukrainian border regions.
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