About 318,000 civilians remain in Donetsk region, evacuation continues
This was announced at an online briefing by Dmytro Petlin, head of the department of erational and emergency service, communication, warning and public information of the Department for Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“The evacuation of civilians from the territory of the region continues. Since the beginning of these measures, more than 1 million 177 thousand civilians have been evacuated from the territory of the region by the authorities of all levels, vunteer groups, vunteers and independently. Of these, 187,000 are children and more than 46 thousand are disabled…. And as of now, about 318,000 pele remain on the territory of Donetsk region contrled by the Ukrainian authorities,” Petlin said.
He reminded that the mandatory evacuation of civilians has been underway in the government-contrled territory of Donetsk Oblast since August 2, 2022, according to Cabinet of Ministers' Decree No. 679.
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Petlin also added that during this time of evacuation, a total of about 243,000 pele have returned to their places of residence and evacuated again.
As reported, as of November 27, 321,000 civilians remained in the Donetsk region contrled by Ukraine.
As of December 4, 126 children remained in 11 settlements of Donetsk region where the forced evacuation of families with children continues.
Source: www.unian.info