INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has spent one-tenth of its expected budget on Ukrainian refugees as some emergency accommodation sites remain empty, according to
added that refugee centers in the northwestern Novgorod region remained empty, while sites in the Ryazan and Nizhny Novgorod regions east of
Moscow were on the verge of closing.Procurement data shows Russia spent 776 million rubles ($11.4 million) between March 12-May 1 instead of
temporary accommodation centers in an attempt to travel on to Europe or western Ukraine.Several Ukrainians at a Voronezh refugee center
recently said they had come to Russia because it was closer than Europe, while a member of a 5,000-member Telegram group for Ukrainian
Ukrainians to flee the country, with nearly 3 million crossing into Poland.More than 800,000 Ukrainians have fled to Romania, 500,000 to
from Ukraine and pro-Moscow republics in its southeast since the beginning of the invasion.
