Over the past week, 600 people left Donetsk Oblast on their own or were evacuated. Currently, 196,200 civilians remain in the territory of Donetsk Oblast controlled by the Ukrainian government.
The progress of the evacuation in Donetsk region was discussed during a regular briefing at the regional state administration with the participation of representatives of the Department of Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense, the Service for Children's Affairs, and the Department of Social Protection of the Population.
There are 14,200 residents remaining in communities declared to be active combat zones. According to official data, there are no children in this territory. In the city of Kostiantynivka, from where evacuation is still possible, there are 4,300 civilians remaining.
According to the regional administration's child welfare service, 12,690 children remain in the Donetsk region. In two settlements where families with children are being forcibly evacuated, 410 children remain. Five of them are in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Kramatorsk community and 405 are in the city of Druzhkivka.
Over the past week, 55 children have been evacuated: 49 minors were taken from Druzhkivka and 6 children from Komyshuvakha.
The free resettlement of Donetsk residents in other regions continues. According to the Department of Social Protection of the Population, over the past week, 90 people were resettled free of charge in various regions: Odesa, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, and others.
By the end of the week, 12 residents of Donetsk Oblast with limited mobility, who were evacuated earlier and were waiting for further resettlement at the Ocean of Good transit point in Dnipro, will continue their journey. Thanks to a partnership with the East SOS Charitable Foundation, the people will first be taken to Lviv, and from there to specialized institutions in Germany that can provide care for people with limited mobility.
As part of a government pilot project on nursing care for people with limited mobility who live alone, 20 such residents of Donetsk have already been taken to the Selidovo Hospital, which has resumed operations in a relocated facility in the Odesa region.
Single people with limited mobility continue to hesitate and are reluctant to leave their homes, remaining in danger. As of early December, there are about 1,100 such single people with limited mobility who are cared for by social workers in the Donetsk region. For those who do agree to move to safer areas, doctors in Dnipro prepare the necessary medical reports, and the people are then accommodated free of charge in specialized medical facilities. In the near future, these evacuated residents will be taken to the Poltava and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.