The border crossings between Russia and Ukraine have been closed since the beginning of the invasion. Now the Ukrainian authorities have opened one of them so that the refugees displaced in the Russian Federation could return home.
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Leave [з росії] it is possible and necessary through the humanitarian corridor Kolotilovka – Pokrovka, – said on Wednesday, August 9, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk on the air of the Public.
According to her, the checkpoint located between the Sumy region of Ukraine and the Russian Belgorod region was already working last Saturday. Hundreds of people pass through it every day. The Ukrainian authorities help returned refugees to get to Kharkiv or Kyiv.
Vereshchuk assured that refugees do not need to have a Ukrainian passport to return to the country – border services accept other documents, such as birth certificates.
The Deputy Prime Minister specified that free buses run from Pokrovka to Krasnopole. There are the first reception points where you can relax, receive medical and humanitarian assistance, as well as all the necessary information for further movement. In particular, regarding a special evacuation train from Sumy to Kyiv, shuttle buses to Kharkiv, provided for payments of financial assistance.
If there is only a birth certificate for the child, our border guard will let it through. If there is no passport, but there is another certificate or document, this is also possible. the occupiers can take away or destroy the passport. Often, due to its absence, people cannot decide to leave dangerous territories. I urge you to use this opportunity and go to the controlled territory through the existing humanitarian corridor,” Vereshchuk summed up.
Source: Racurs
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