“People’s deputy from the Servant of the People party, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, Maksym Tkachenko, called the statement about the number of internally displaced persons returning to the occupied territories his own assumption.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Tkachenko in a comment to “Ukrinform”
Direct speech: “I spoke incorrectly, so I want to refute my words. There is no such data. It was my unfounded and emotional assumption.”
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Details: According to the people’s deputy, there are individual cases when Ukrainians for various reasons are forced to travel to temporarily occupied territories, “but it is by no means about hundreds or even tens of thousands, and general verified statistics cannot even theoretically exist.”
What preceded: People’s Deputy of Ukraine Maksym Tkachenko stated in an interview with “Ukrinform” that about 150,000 internally displaced persons have returned to the temporarily occupied territories, in particular, up to 70,000 – to the temporarily occupied Mariupol.