MOSCOW. June 23 (Interfax) - Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the human rights committee Civil Assistance and a member of the council of the center Memorial, has given good marks to the measures taken in Russia to help refugees from Ukraine.
"I am not happy with the Russian policies on Ukraine. However, as far as refugees are concerned, additional measures are needed and the state is taking them. I don't have any big complaints here," she told Interfax on Monday.
"It's the first flow of refugees with which our state is working so seriously, and we can only welcome that," she said.
"It's a real inflow of refugees. Our representatives on the border are saying that people keep coming. They are killing them on the Ukrainian territory, there is shooting going on there. If people hear shooting, even at a distance, they, naturally, try to get their families out of there," Gannushkina said.
The Federal Migration Service has recently told Interfax that some 400,000 Ukrainians have entered Russia since the beginning of this year and are now in areas close to the Ukrainian border.