ROSTOV-ON-DON. Aug 29 (Interfax) - Russian customs officers and border guards have accepted 100 Ukrainian who fled fighting in Ukraine's eastern regions at the Kuibyshevo checkpoint in the Rostov region.
"Residents of the Ukrainian cities of Ilovaysk, Donetsk, Khartsyzsk and Makiyivka - preschool-age children with their mothers, as well as a group of people with disabilities - were traveling to the Russian-Ukrainian border in four buses and then on foot. They told us that two of their buses came under fire opened by the Ukrainian army, but they managed to pass all dangerous sections of the road and reach the border without losses," Russian Southern Customs Directorate spokesman Rayan Farukshin told Interfax on Friday.
The Ukrainian citizens were provided with drinking water and were then sent to a refugee shelter in the town of Matveyev Kurgan in the Rostov region, he said.