Rostov Region starts closing TACs

Eight out of the 42 temporary accommodation centres (TACs) for refugees from Ukraine were closed in the Rostov Region, said a source from the regional government.

Residents of Ukraine began arriving en masse in Russia in May-June 2014 after the Ukrainian power agents began their antiterrorist operation (ATO) in the Lugansk and Donetsk Regions. After signing of the September Minsk Armistice Agreements, refugees began returning home; and TACs were liquidated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 2014 the situation in the conflict zone worsened; and Donbas residents began leaving their homeland again. On January 29, Sergey Ivanov, the head of the Russian presidential administration, asked governors of Russian regions to help the Rostov Region, which faced a new wave of refugees, and to accommodate some of them.

The decision to close some of the TACs was made due to a sharp decrease in the inflow of refugees after signing a ceasefire agreement on February 15.

"To date, the region has 39,132 refugees, of whom 2,713 people live in TACs," the RIA "Novosti" quotes a source from the government of the Rostov Region.

According to his story, the closed TACs are being converted into children summer camps.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.