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The reality is that the numbers are sure to much greater
About 4,000 Ukrainian refugees seek temporary asylum or refugee status in Russia
The administration of Russia's Voronezh region says the problem may become sharper if the refugees' number keeps rising in the coming days
3
June, 2014
Konstantin
Romodanovsky, Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS),
said on Tuesday that about 4,000 Ukrainian nationals have applied for
temporary asylum or a refugee status in Russia.
“About
4,000 Ukrainian nationals have asked the Russian Federal Migration
Service for a refugee status or have applied for temporary asylum in
Russia,” Romodanovsky stressed.
“Most
problems related to durable sojourn in the territory of Russia are
linked with Ukrainian citizens. We are helping them, and are ready to
help. So, the number of refugees keeps growing,” the FMS chief
said.
The
leaders of the migration agencies in Slovakia and Hungary, who met
Romodanovsky on Tuesday, said their countries did not face any
refugee flows from Ukraine.
Refugees
come to Russia
In
the meantime, Russia’s Voronezh region, which is bordering Ukraine,
has received first refugees who fled the military hostilities in
Ukraine. Three families with four children arrived from the Luhansk
region after the situation there got seriously worse, a source at the
Rossoshansky district of the Voronezh region told ITAR-TASS on
Tuesday.
An
administration expert, Sergei Tkachenko, explained that the refugees
were staying with their relatives and friends in the Rossoshansky
district. The authorities in the village of Shekalovka provided two
houses for the refugees on a local farm. However, the administration
says the refugee problem may become sharper if their number keeps
rising in the coming days.
Several
Ukrainian families who want to wait out the hard times in Russia have
found shelter in the neighboring Kantemirovsky district of the
Voronezh region, Vladimir Filatov, the deputy administration head,
said.
Russian
Children’s Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov told a news conference
that Russia’s southern Rostov region would receive 80 Ukrainian
refugees on Tuesday.
Ukrainian
refugees are also crossing into Russia in the Belgorod region.
“The
situation is tense. A total of 375 families have crossed the border
since late March: 338 of them have asked the Federal Migration
Service for temporary asylum. Thirty-seven families have sought a
refugee status,” Astakhov said.
Thirty
children and 26 adults crossed into Russia’s Rostov region from
Ukraine’s Donetsk region on foot on the night to June 2. All of
them have been accommodated at recreation and health improvement
centers. Fourteen children will travel further to Stavropol, the
administrative center of Russia’s southern Stavropol region.
Slavyansk blockade: Shelling non-stop, shops closed, no meds, no chance to evacuate
The
Ukrainian National Guard continues to shell Slavyansk, completely
surrounded by armored vehicles and military checkpoints, locals
report. Residents are hiding in cellars without electricity and water
and no chance to evacuate from the besieged city.
RT,
6
June, 2014
At
least five people were killed during the assault on Friday, local
eyewitness Vitaly told RT, adding that it was impossible to assess
how many people could have been injured in the deserted city
where “whole streets” were “obliterated.”
The
people are hiding in cellars, Vitaly says, as destruction is
widespread and it is hard to predict where the next strike may come
from with planes engaged in the ongoing “anti-terrorist” operation,
as Kiev calls it.
“They
have destroyed at least 4 houses, schools, daycare have all been
destroyed, the pharmacies have all been destroyed. We have no work.
We have no water or electricity. We have no money,”eyewitness told
RT. “We have no clue how to survive further. Most likely we'll
start eating grass from the garden.”
The
city has been completely surrounded, Vitaly confirmed. A real war is
raging in Slavyansk and the military tactics used by Kiev is more
than “disturbing,” he added.
“The
children are afraid,” he said. “Two streets in Slavyansk have
been completely obliterated.”
“A
genocide is underway, they have no clue what they are bombing,”
press secretary of the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Stella
Khorosheva said. “During the shelling of the city, according to
preliminary data, Ukrainian security forces used multiple Grad rocket
launch
Meanwhile,
the self-defense militia sources in Slavyansk told Ria Novosti, that
apparently “in
retaliation for the downed aircraft” the
Ukrainian army shelled the SBU building – one of the headquarters
of the militias. Neighboring civilian houses were also destroyed, the
source said.
With
nightfall, a source in the militia told Itar-Tass said, the Ukrainian
army are deploying “flash
rockets.”There
are many wounded he says, “at
least 10 people.”
Earlier
on Friday, Vladislav Seleznev, the speaker for the Kiev’s military
operation in the east, said the armed forces are deploying more tanks
to strengthen their checkpoints near Slavyansk and roadblocks around
Kramatorsk
“Checkpoints,
which are often subjected to shelling and attacks by terrorists
attempting to escape from the tight encirclement, are being
reinforced with armored vehicles. One of the tanks, for example, is
near the crossroads leading to Krasny Liman. The task of the vehicles
is to increase security and prevent terrorists from breaking the
encirclement,” Seleznev
was quoted by Unian.
Meanwhile
the village of Cherevkovka is also being shelled by artillery – in
particular the “Akacia” howitzer and Tyulpan self-propelled
mortars. “It
seems that without the reconnaissance plane, the artillery has no
clue where to fire. They fire everywhere. They have enormous
expenditure of ammunition,” the
source told Ria Novosti.
.
The
Ukrainian army is also attacking self-defense force positions using
artillery around Kramatorsk airport, the source added. Social media
sources seem to confirm the claim of the ongoing fighting.
Some
170 km from Slavyansk at the checkpoint of Marinovka in the Donetsk
region, the Ukrainian border guard service has confirmed that it
deployed planes to battle militias, Unian reports. Local media claims
at least 4 people have been injured in the fighting at Marinovka.
On
Tuesday, the National Guard intensified what Kiev calls an
‘anti-terrorits’ operation with a massive artillery attack on
Slavyansk, a city with a population of over 110,000 people. The plan
is to conduct a “sweep” of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ahead of
Saturday's presidential inauguration.
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