OSCE Secretary General to visit Ukrainian refugee camp in Russia’s Rostov region — Lavrov

OSCE Secretary General will visit a camp of refugees from Ukraine in Russia’s Rostov region. Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov confirmed this at a meeting with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier on Wednesday.

“I know that in the course of your trip, you will visit the Rostov region, where you will meet with refugees from the Donetsk region,” Lavrov said. “I believe this is useful.”

The Russian Foreign Minister also noted that the OSCE mission should continue operating in Ukraine and make its work more concrete. Он также отметил, что работу миссии ОБСЕ на Украине необходимо продолжать и сделать ее более конкретной. Any attempts to replace OSCE roadmap by other plans are counterproductive, Russia’s minister of foreign affairs emphasized.

Lavrov added that Russia was providing humanitarian aid to residents of south-eastern Ukraine through militia members since Kiev had refused to do this.

Refugees from Ukraine in the Rostov region

June 9, it was reported that only in three days, about 20 thousand women and children from localities of Ukraine’s south-east crossed the state border in the Rostov region

As of June 6, more than 12 thousand Ukrainian residents arrived to Russia, according to reports.

Ukrainian citizens leaving south-eastern localities of Ukraine that resulted in the combat area are mostly heading through Rostov region in transit. Only part of them remains in temporary allocation camps for refugees arranged by the Rostov region’s authorities.