More than 1 million people have been “evacuated from Ukraine” into Russia since 24 February

Sergei Lavrov claimed in remarks published by the ministry

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed in remarks published by the ministry early on Saturday.

Qazet.az reports that Lavrov claimed the hotline of Russia’s interdepartmental coordination headquarters for humanitarian response received requests for assistance in evacuating 2.8 million people to Russia, of which 16,000 were foreign citizens and employees of UN and OSCE international missions.

“In total, 1.02 million people were evacuated from Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR, of which over 120 thousand citizens of third countries,” the foreign minister said in comments made to China’s Xinhua news agency.