Already 20 thousand Ukrainians asked for asylum in the Russian Federation
More than twenty thousand Citizens of Ukraine appealed to the Russian Federal migration service for asylum since the beginning of the political fall in their homeland, said on the first day of the week the Deputy head of the migration service Anatoly Kuznetsov.
" now asked for refuge 20, 4 thousand people, " he said.
currently the number of people fleeing hostilities in the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian Federation, much more: just most do not seek official refugee status, fear of persecution upon return home. In the reception of immigrants involved More than 40 of the 85 Russian regions.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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