The Ministry of Reintegration in Ukraine has declared the emergency removal of minors from multiple areas under Kyiv’s administration in both the Donetsk and Kherson regions, citing imminent threats of aerial bombardments and a potential Russian incursion. The ministry disclosed this information through its official communication channels.
In the Donetsk region, an estimated 250 minors are slated for evacuation from eight communities situated in the Bakhmut and Pokrovsky districts. Initially, these children will be transported to a humanitarian aid centre where they will be provided with essential assistance. Subsequently, they will be relocated to the Zhytomyr region for further safety measures.
In contrast, the Kherson region will see the evacuation of 802 children from 23 different localities in the Berislavsky, Kakhovsky, and Kherson districts. These children are scheduled to be moved to various regions including Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, Odessa, and Lviv. Additionally, approximately one hundred children will find temporary refuge in a sanatorium located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Current hostilities are concentrated in the Kherson and Donetsk regions, and it is evident that the urgency to evacuate the children is correlated with the escalation of these conflicts. Russian forces have been relentlessly attempting to seize control of the town of Avdeevka for over a week. This evacuation initiative is also a response to the uptick in Russian aerial attacks. On September 20, Russian forces targeted Berislav with four air-dropped bombs, as confirmed by Alexander Prokudin, the head of the regional military administration. On October 22, Russian military aggression extended to the city of Toretsk and three additional villages in the Donetsk region.
Earlier in the year, during the closing weeks of summer, Ukrainian officials had announced the evacuation of 37 communities in the Kupiansky district of the Kharkiv region, along with five other localities in Zaporizhzhia—namely Gulyaypolya, Stepnogorsk, Preobrazhenka, Egorovka, and Novopavlovka. In the month of September, families with children residing in several areas under Kyiv’s control in the Kherson region were also evacuated as a precautionary measure.
