FILE PHOTO: Children play on the beach amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Tkachenko
(Reuters) - More than 11,500 people, including 1,847 children, were transported from Ukraine into Russia on Monday without the participation of Kyiv's authorities, Russia's defence ministry said.
That number includes evacuations from Russian-backed breakaway regions of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's republics, which Russia recognised as independent just before launching its Feb. 24th invasion.
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