MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - Officials from the United Nations Refugee Agency have visited temporary settlement centers for evacuated residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), the Zaporozhye, and the Kherson regions in the Tambov region, the press service of Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Monday.
"Employees of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees visited temporary accommodation centers in the Tambov region on April 11-13 along with members of the Russian human rights commissioner's office and Human Rights Commissioner in the Tambov region Vladimir Repin and representatives from the Russian Red Cross's regional branch," it said.
The delegation visited temporary accommodation centers at the Kalinin Resort Center in the Michurinsk district, at the Michurinsk Hotel in the city of Michurinsk, and at a dormitory of the 3rd Agro-Industrial Vocational School. They inspected the conditions in which the evacuees are settled, and officials from the Russian ombudsman's office had personal meetings with some of them.
Such joint visits have been held under a memorandum of understanding and cooperation between the Russian ombudsman and the UNHCR office in Russia signed in October 2022.
There are a total of 13 temporary accommodation centers for refugees in the Tambov region, where 810 people are settled, including 698 Russian citizens and 112 foreigners, it said.
"Employees of the [Russian] commissioner's office and UNHCR representatives have earlier visited 23 temporary accommodation centers in eight entities of the Russian Federation, i.e. the republic of Chuvashia, the Ryazan, Oryol, Sverdlovsk, Moscow, and Leningrad regions, Nizhny Novgorod, and Samara," it said.