606 Ukrainian citizens who left combat zones arrived in Irkutsk region for permanent residence, including 175 children and 49 pensioners. At Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station, social services, the Emergencies Ministry, police and doctors helped them. Some needed hospitalization, and from tomorrow registration, medical exams and job placement consultations will begin. On the way, the displaced received psychological and medical help, as well as water and children's items.

Today, 606 Ukrainian citizens who left the combat zones arrived in the Irkutsk Region for permanent residence. As reported by the Deputy Chairwoman of the regional Government, Valentina Voblikova, among those who arrived were 175 children, 20 of them under one year old, 37 aged from one to three years, and 88 of school age. The group also included 344 people of working age and 49 pensioners, including three disabled people. Almost all of these people lived in the Luhansk Region.
Employees of the Ministry of Social Development, Guardianship and Trusteeship of the Angara Region, the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Irkutsk Region, police officers, and medical workers arrived at Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station to meet the passenger train. They helped carry luggage, seated people onto a line of buses, and one elderly woman and one child required hospitalization.
Today, employees of the migration service will begin working with the arrivals and will register them as refugees. Starting tomorrow, the people will begin undergoing medical examinations and receiving consultations from specialists from the Ministry of Labor and Employment. Among the able-bodied are mainly people with technical specialties and secondary vocational education, as well as skilled workers; they will be offered vacancies that have remained open in our region for several years, Valentina Voblikova said.
From Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, the resettlers were accompanied on the train by 12 employees of the Angara Region’s Ministry of Social Development led by Minister Vladimir Rodionov, two psychologists, two disaster medicine doctors, and five migration service employees. Vladimir Rodionov said that during the journey people were informed about the Irkutsk Region and its enterprises. In Taishet, 400 liters of bottled drinking water, warm children’s clothing, and diapers for babies were loaded onto the train. Along the way, 48 people sought medical help due to colds, mostly children; one woman received assistance for a leg injury.
– Many in Luhansk had been under bombardment, people needed to speak out, and what we heard from them is truly terrible, Vladimir Rodionov emphasized.
Another 33 Ukrainian refugees will arrive in Irkutsk this evening. At the end of the month, the next two trains are expected, bringing 930 people to the region.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region.