ROSTOV-ON-DON. Feb 21 (Interfax) - More than 21,000 residents of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics have crossed the border over the past 24 hours, the Rostov regional branch of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)'s Border Service said on Monday.
"More than 21,000 evacuees from the Donbas republics have passed through border checkpoints over the past day," the agency said.