Families with children are being forcibly evacuated from Volnovakha district in Donetsk region
Kyiv • UNN
In the Volnovakha district of Donetsk region, the forced evacuation of families with children from 16 settlements of the Velykonovosilkovo community has begun. As of the signing of the protocol, 174 children have already been evacuated, but another 1,600 people remain in the area.
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Coordination Headquarters for theimplementation of the mandatory evacuation of the population, a decision was made to conduct a mandatory evacuation of children with their parents.
Writes UNN with reference to the Donetsk regional administration.
At a meeting of the Coordination Headquarters for Compulsory Evacuation, it was decided to forcibly evacuate children together with their parents, persons in loco parentis or other legal representatives from the settlements of Velykonovosilka community in Volnovakha district: Velyka Novosilka, Andriivka, Bahatyr, Vremivka, Zelenyi Kut, Zolota Niva, Kostiantynopil, Novyi Komar, Novoukrainka, Odradne, Oleksiivka, Petropavlivka, Rozlyv, Slovianka, Ulakly and Shevchenkove. The evacuation will be carried out to safe regions of the country.
According to Oleksandr Shevchenko, deputy head of the Donetsk RMA, 174 children lived in these settlements at the time of signing the protocol, and all of them have already been evacuated. However, another 1,600 people remain in these settlements.
We have the State Emergency Service, the National Police, and volunteer organizations working for evacuation purposes. We have an evacuation hub for this purpose. There are evacuation routes. People leave on their own or call the hotline
Recall
The evacuation of the population from dangerous areas continues in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove communities of Donetsk region . In Pokrovsk, 11 thousand people remain, including 49 children, and in Kurakhove - 700-800 people.
