UNHCR representative Baisa Wak-Woya visited the temporary accommodation center for Ukrainian refugees in Savateevka with a delegation and assessed living conditions, food, and daily arrangements. The visit noted a high level of aid organization and described how since 2014 Irkutsk Region has received and housed arrivals from southeastern Ukraine. Three temporary accommodation centers still operate in the region, housing 408 people.

A representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Russian Federation, Baisa Vak-Voya, together with a UN delegation, visited the temporary accommodation center for Ukrainian refugees located in the settlement of Savateyevka in the Angarsk District. Representatives of the United Nations inspected the premises and living conditions of the people; the delegation toured the dining hall, reviewed the menu, and UN representatives also visited the sleeping quarters and spoke with the refugees. Following the visit, the high level of social and living arrangements for citizens who were forced to leave the territory of Ukraine and are living in temporary accommodation centers in the Irkutsk Region was noted. - This was stated in his message by Deputy Minister of Social Development, Guardianship and Trusteeship of the Irkutsk Region Alexey Makarov.
Referring to data from the Office of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Irkutsk Region, the Minister of Social Development, Guardianship and Trusteeship reported that over the annual period from March 1, 2014 to the present, the number of citizens arriving from the southeastern regions of Ukraine amounted to 8,050 people. In large numbers, 3,010 citizens of Ukraine arrived in the Irkutsk Region at the direction of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, and upon arrival were sent to temporary accommodation centers (TACs). In total, during the period of operation of the temporary accommodation centers from August 24, 2014 to March 3, 2015, 2,602 people left the centers. Citizens from southeastern Ukraine left the TACs due to moving to municipalities of the Irkutsk Region and finding employment (1,647 people), or due to departures to another constituent entity of the Russian Federation. Since the beginning of spring 2015, on March 1, the temporary accommodation center located in the city of Bratsk has been closed.
Initially, 10 temporary accommodation centers operated in the territory of the Irkutsk Region, where all citizens were provided with accommodation and meals, assistance was given in undergoing medical examinations, processing documents, assistance in finding employment, humanitarian aid, as well as advisory services. As of today, 3 temporary accommodation centers are operating in the Irkutsk Region, where 408 people live.
According to materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.