There are currently 146,700 residents living in the part of Donetsk Oblast controlled by Ukrainian authorities, including 8,600 children. Since the beginning of May, 13,200 people, including 730 children, have left Donetsk Oblast.
The progress of the evacuation in the Donetsk region was discussed during a 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.
There are still 17,000 people living in communities designated as active combat zones. Of these, 4 children are in the city of Mykolaivka.
The forced evacuation of families with children will continue in Mykolaivka, where it is currently impossible to determine the whereabouts of the children, as well as in the village of Serhiivka in the Andriivka community, where a family with one child returned after the evacuation.
In total, 50 minors were evacuated in May from those settlements where the forced evacuation of families with children is ongoing. 19 children were evacuated from Druzhkivka, six from Serhiivka in the Andriivska community, five from Mykolaivka, and 20 from certain districts of Sloviansk.
Recently, the highest numbers of people have been leaving the Kramatorsk community, where the population has decreased by 6,500; the Sloviansk community, from which 2,800 people have left; the Mykolaiv community, from which 820 residents have managed to leave; and the Druzhkivka community, from which over 500 people have been evacuated.
Evacuation via transit centers continues. The transit point in the Kharkiv region receives up to 200–250 people daily who are being evacuated from the Donetsk region to safer areas. Everyone in need is provided with free housing. Since early May, 181 people have been provided with free housing, including 61 residents with limited mobility and 26 children.
In early June, transportation will be organized to bring families with children—who are currently staying temporarily at a shelter run by the charity “Save Ukraine” in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast—to their new homes in Zhytomyr Oblast.
In May, people with limited mobility from Donetsk Oblast were actively placed in residential care facilities in other regions.
Facilities in the Zhytomyr region took in single, mobility-impaired residents from the Donetsk region; 22 such individuals were accommodated there in May.