MOSCOW. July 9 (Interfax) - Russia has deployed over 300 shelters for Ukrainian refugees. Their present-day population nears 20,000, Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said.
"Another four shelters opened in Russia in the past 24 hours to increase their total number to 306. Some 19,848 Ukrainian refugees are staying there," Drobyshevsky told Interfax on Wednesday.
Ministry planes and motor vehicles transport refugees, who mostly arrive in the Rostov region and Crimea, to other areas of the Southern, North Caucasian and Central Federal Districts.
In all, the ministry has provided transportation to 8,112 refugees, including 499 over the past day.
A mobile hospital of the ministry's southern regional rescue unit has opened on the premises of a refugee tent camp in the border city of Donetsk in the Rostov region. Hospital doctors have given aid to 127 Ukrainian citizens, the ministry spokesman said.