Over 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen from Crimea have arrived in the mainland, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
“As at April 2 1,059 people arrived in mainland Ukraine from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 385 of them officers, 547 sergeants and contract servicemen, two employees of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 125 family members, including 38 children,” a ministry report says.
According to the HR department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, almost half of the arrivals represent the Ukrainian Navy and their families – 562 people. Also 346 represent the Ukrainian Air Force and the rest belong to units directly subordinate to the Defense Ministry and General Staff.
“The personnel arriving from Crimea have been accommodated at the National Defense University of Ukraine, military units in Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Odesa regions, at Motor Sich plant (Zaporizhia), the Mykolaiv training center, Kuyalnyk health resort (Odesa), a military town in Kherson, and also at the homes of their relatives and friends,” the press service said.
