European Union mission to visit refugee camps in RussiaRussia is ready to receive a mission of the Council of Europe that will get familiarized with the situation in the camps for Ukrainian refugees on the Russian territory, Itar Tass reports."We think the Council of Europe's Secretary General, Thorbjorn Jagland, took a timely decision on August 19 as he sent out appeals to the foreign ministers of the Council's member-states and called their attention to the humanitarian situation, which is worsening in the wake of the dragged-out conflict in the Eastern regions of Ukraine," Itar Tass quotes a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday."In Jagland's opinion, the situation cannot be characterized in any other terms than a dramatic one and prone for a further aggravation," he added.
Russia is ready to receive a mission of the Council of Europe that will get familiarized with the situation in the camps for Ukrainian refugees on the Russian territory, Itar Tass reports."We think the Council of Europe's Secretary General, Thorbjorn Jagland, took a timely decision on August 19 as he sent out appeals to the foreign ministers of the Council's member-states and called their attention to the humanitarian situation, which is worsening in the wake of the dragged-out conflict in the Eastern regions of Ukraine," Itar Tass quotes a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday."In Jagland's opinion, the situation cannot be characterized in any other terms than a dramatic one and prone for a further aggravation," he added.