There are still 77,500 residents living in the part of Donetsk Oblast controlled by Ukrainian authorities. In September, 18,000 Donetsk residents—including 1,317 children—left the region either on their own or were evacuated.
The progress of the evacuation in the Donetsk region was discussed during a regular briefing at the regional state administration, attended by representatives of the Department of Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense, the Children’s Services Agency, and the Department of Social Protection.
The largest numbers of people remain in the Kramatorsk (30,100) and Sloviansk (24,200) communities. The pace of evacuation from the Novodonetsk community has increased, with 2,100 people having left since the beginning of the month. Currently, 730 residents remain there.
The situation is similar in the Oleksandrivka community, where 6,000 people currently live, and 1,300 residents have left since the beginning of the month.
A total of 3,527 children remain in the Donetsk region. According to the Child Welfare Service, the largest number of minors is in the Sloviansk community—1,715 children—while 801 children remain in the Kramatorsk community.
In those settlements where a mandatory evacuation of families with children has been ordered, 232 children remain. In September, 511 children were forcibly evacuated along with their families.
A total of 382 children left certain settlements in the Kramatorsk community and certain neighborhoods of the city where a mandatory evacuation of families with children had been ordered; 21 children left the Svyatogorsk community; 85 children left the Sloviansk community; and 23 children left the Novodonetsk community.
The largest wave of evacuations of Donetsk residents out of the region occurred in the first half of September. Up to 340 people passed through the transit point in the Kharkiv region each day. The pace has slowed since then, but nearly 200 people still pass through this transit point daily.
The free resettlement of evacuees from Donetsk Oblast to safer regions of the country continues. In September, 593 people were resettled, including 242 people with disabilities and 57 children.
This month, residents of Donetsk Oblast were warmly welcomed for free resettlement in 16 regions of Ukraine. In September, the largest number of people were resettled in Rivne Oblast (133 people), Zhytomyr Oblast (123 people), and Cherkasy Oblast (83 people).
Charitable foundations and volunteers are providing significant assistance with the evacuation and resettlement of Donetsk residents, for which we are deeply grateful.
In the part of Donetsk Oblast controlled by Ukrainian authorities, 313 single, mobility-impaired citizens remain, receiving assistance and care from social workers. In September, 100 such people were evacuated from the region.
One example is a bedridden woman with limited mobility from Druzhkivka, who had been persuaded for two years to leave the dangerous city. She finally agreed, and she was evacuated to a safer region of Ukraine.