There are still 108,400 residents living in the part of Donetsk Oblast controlled by Ukrainian authorities, including 5,500 children. Since the beginning of August, 9,400 residents of Donetsk Oblast have left the region, including 740 children.
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, and the Department of Social Protection.
There are still 11,000 residents living in the 19 communities designated as active combat zones. The largest numbers of people are currently in the Kramatorsk (42,300 residents) and Sloviansk (36,000) communities.
The compulsory evacuation of families with children is currently underway in seven settlements. A total of 503 children remain in these areas. The largest number—460 of them—are in certain neighborhoods of Kramatorsk and the Kramatorsk community, where mandatory evacuation of families has been ordered.
This month, 169 children were evacuated along with their parents or legal guardians from those settlements where mandatory family evacuations have been ordered. In total, since these evacuations began, more than 21,000 children have been evacuated from the settlements designated in various phases.
The free resettlement of evacuees from Donetsk to safer regions of Ukraine is ongoing. Since the beginning of August, 279 residents—including 104 people with limited mobility and 41 children—have been transported through transit points and resettled free of charge. This month, the regions that accepted the most evacuees for resettlement were Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and others.
Every day, up to 300 people from Donetsk Oblast pass through a transit center in Kharkiv Oblast; half of them stay overnight before continuing their journey. A person may stay at a transit center with overnight accommodations for up to three days, or up to seven days under special circumstances. There are available beds for overnight stays at the transit centers. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, fewer people from Donetsk Oblast pass through the transit center; more people there are coming from other regions where evacuations are ongoing.