NYT: refugees from Ukraine go deep into Russia, because they did not want to return
The vast number of immigrants from the East of Ukraine is ready to move even in the most remote regions of Russia, not to return to their homeland, writes journalist Andrew Roth in his own report from Donetsk in the Rostov region.
Most of the Refugees as long as don't know where the region will be their new home, and how he will be far from the Russian capital and Saint Petersburg. Refugees are actively interested in what they can detect, what are schools for their children, there are many products in the local shops. Some are afraid, how will be able to get used to life in the national republics, for example, Bashkiria.
anyway, most come already decided in whatever area they had to go from temporary accommodation at the border line with Ukraine, from Russia, they don't want to leave, says Andrew Roth.
" It (the departure from Ukraine approx. Ed.) - forever. I dream that citizens in Kiev will experience what We had. I believe in justice " - quoted expression, women of Ukrainian Donetsk Natalia Cybulski NYT journalist.
As reported by Andrew Roth referring to the messenger of the emergencies Ministry in Rostov region, only 25-30 % of immigrants hope sooner or later to return home, for this reason I want to stay in the border with Ukraine regions. Someone remains at the border while waiting for the arrival of the Russian Federation of their relatives from the conflict zone.
The resident Gorlovka Svetlana Kirilyuk could take away from a city only one son and 8-year-old Bogdan, her second child was left in Ukraine, and now she wants to wait for the second son, or to go for it.
" We always thought that the war will be a party. Instead it has been ploughed our lives " - quoted by Svetlana Kirilyuk NYT journalist.
The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has greatly increased since June amid ongoing fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security. The main influx was on the border of the Rostov region, where not less than 50 thousand Inhabitants of Ukraine. According to the Federal migration service of the Russian Federation, in the period from 1 April to about 820 thousand Ukrainian Citizens to enter Russia and remained on its territory.
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