Nearly 223,000 pele returned to Donetsk region after evacuation

Dmytro Petlin, head of the erational duty service, communication, warning and public information division at the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said this at a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"From February 26 [2022] until now, about 1.357 million pele have been evacuated from the region. Among them are 163,520 children and about 42,650 pele with disabilities. During this time, about 223,000 pele have also returned home. And this tendency has been growing. Over the past two months, about 2,000 more pele have returned than evacuated," Petlin said.

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He noted that currently, about 524,000 pele remain in the region, while the evacuation continues.

As reported, the Donetsk region is under constant Russian shelling. The enemy kills and injures civilians almost daily, destroys residential and administrative buildings, energy and infrastructure facilities. The Donetsk region has the longest frontline, which is about 300 kilometers.