202 children remain in the forced evacuation zone in Donetsk region

Acting Head of the Children's Service of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Yulia Ryzhakova reported this at an online briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“At the moment, 196 children from 158 families remain in eight settlements and are subject to forced evacuation along with their parents or their legal representatives,” Ryzhakova noted.

She specified that we are talking about three settlements where a new stage of forced evacuation has begun, and added that 11 children remain in the urban community of Liman, four in the Krivoy Rog rural community, and 181 children in Dobrilskaya, for a total of 196 children.

However, there are two more communities – Komarskaya rural and Toretskaya urban – which were previously listed for forced evacuation, and children were taken from them, but then returned to their parents. Currently, there are six more children left in these two communities: in the Komarskaya rural community, one child remains in one family, in the Toretskaya urban community – five children from four families, Ryzhakova added.

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According to her, over the past seven days, 11 children from eight families have been forcibly evacuated from the Donetsk region.

As reported, the forced evacuation of children and their families in the Donetsk region began on April 7, 2023.