MOSCOW: Moscow has struck a cope with Kyiv and the Purple Cross to evacuate residents from the embattled Kursk area, components of which have been seized by Ukraine, Russia’s rights commissioner mentioned Monday.
Kyiv launched a shock cross-border assault on the Russian area greater than six months in the past, capturing dozens of villages and trapping many Russian civilians on the alternative aspect of the entrance line.
A few of these residents have now crossed into Ukraine’s neighbouring Sumy area and are awaiting evacuation through Belarus, Russian rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova mentioned.
“There are people who find themselves already in Sumy at present. And there’s an settlement with the Purple Cross and the Ukrainian aspect that they are going to be evacuated by means of Belarus to Russia,” Moskalkova mentioned, in response to Russia’s RIA information company.
Moskalkova didn’t say what number of Kursk residents can be evacuated below the settlement.
An official lacking individuals record compiled by Russian authorities initially recorded solely round 500 folks unaccounted for within the Ukrainian-occupied zone, however native residents say the quantity is shut to three,000.
Ukraine says hundreds of its personal civilians are being held in areas seized and occupied by Moscow since its assault started on February 24, 2022, and that it’s offering protected passage to Russians within the Kursk area.