Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree stipulating that 17.7 billion rubles from the state reserve fund will be transferred to the constituent entities of the Russian Federation as compensation for funds spent on housing of those evacuated from the Gaza Strip in 2023. The document was published on the official site internet portal legal information.
The allocated funds must cover the accommodation of evacuees for a period of six months. The money is allocated for accommodation in a refugee’s temporary accommodation center in the amount of 913 rubles per day. 415 rubles per day are allocated for food for one person.
The allocated funds will be received from Dagestan, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Moscow, Tver and Chelyabinsk regions.
At the end of December, Yuri Gorlach, director of the Situation and Crisis Center Department (DSCC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation statedConsidering that a small number of Russian citizens remain in the Gaza Strip, foreign missions are trying to provide assistance to them on an individual basis. He added that since the beginning of November, the Russian side has been able to evacuate about 1,300 people from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah checkpoint on the Egyptian border.
Previously a special board of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia reached Humanitarian aid shipment to the people of Gaza was sent to Egypt.