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| Residents of Kursk region in Sumy are being evacuated to Russia |
| 2025-02-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] An agreement has been reached on the return of residents of the Kursk region in Sumy through the territory of Belarus to Russia, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova reported on February 24. The location of these people has been established, Moskalkova said at a meeting of the presidium of the United Russia faction in the State Duma. “There is an agreement with the Red Cross and with the Ukrainian side that they will be evacuated through Belarus to Russia,” the ombudsman said. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador for Special Assignments on Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik previously noted that Russia is working on the issue of evacuating residents of the Kursk region who were taken to Sumy after the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strike on the boarding school in Sudzha. This concerns dozens of citizens, he noted. Residents of the Kursk region, released from Ukrainian captivity during the exchange, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers deprived them of water and food, including for careless words, Miroshnik reported earlier. At the same time, people were under the supervision of the International Red Cross and other human rights organizations, so the Ukrainian side tried to be more careful with the captives, the diplomat specified. On January 11, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the search for 1,174 residents of the Kursk region who had gone missing since August 2024. Information about 240 of them has already been received. On February 18, a register of missing border residents began operating in the Kursk region. The president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the authorities are doing everything possible to return the residents of the Kursk region taken to Ukraine. He emphasized that such agreements are the result of very difficult negotiations. |
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