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RIA Novosti
Russia during the conflict in the East of Ukraine took 2.5 million refugees, said the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobiev.
“Russia has adopted and returned (meaning partially — ed.) millions of refugees. Europe has adopted and shuddered 900 thousand, and we have 2.5 million refugees,” — said Vorobyov at the round table in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
The Ukrainian authorities in April 2014 began a military operation against the breakaway LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN victims of the conflict began more than 10 thousand people.
People were forced to leave their homes in almost all cities of Donetsk region. Previously managing Director of the office of the Commissioner for human rights in DND Dmitry Popov told RIA Novosti that the causes of forced displacement are not only combat operations, but also the persecution of civilians that support DND from the Ukrainian authorities.