MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Russia has reached an agreement with Ukraine to evacuate displaced Kursk residents to Russia, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Monday.
Authorities have located Kursk residents in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, Moskalkova said.
"There is an agreement with the Red Cross and with the Ukrainian side that they will be evacuated through Belarus to Russia," she added.
The Ukrainian military launched an offensive in Russia's Kursk region over six months ago. Moskalkova previously said that since Ukraine's incursion, more than a thousand requests have been made by relatives seeking to locate missing Kursk region residents, including those forcibly removed by Ukraine. ■
