There are 183,000 civilians still living in the part of Donetsk Oblast controlled by the Ukrainian government. There are 23,000 people in 21 communities that are recognized as active combat zones.
The progress of the evacuation in the Donetsk region was discussed during a traditional 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.
According to the Department of Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense, 1,500 people have left their homes in their settlements over the past week.
Up to 12 police evacuation teams, three State Emergency Service teams, and 10 volunteer teams are working daily in the Donetsk region, risking their lives to evacuate people from under fire.
In Kramatorsk and Oleksandrivka, there are temporary collection points from where people who have volunteered to be evacuated outside the region are taken to transit points in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The Department of Social Protection of the Population reminds that free accommodation is being provided to people who have nowhere to go. Between February 1 and 25 this year, 170 evacuees from Donetsk, including 58 children and 37 people with limited mobility, were resettled free of charge in safer regions.
Kirovograd, Poltava, Odessa, Lviv, Volyn, Ternopil, Kyiv, and other regions are actively accepting displaced persons.
A total of 11,635 children remain in Donetsk region. According to the Children's Services Department, 41 children are in the active combat zone, all of them in Druzhkivka. Another 201 minors remain in seven settlements where the forced evacuation of families with children is ongoing. There are 33 children remaining in the village of Serhiivka in the Andriivska community, 107 children in the Mykolaivska community, and 20 children in the Sviatohirsk community.
Between February 4 and 25, 282 children were taken from settlements where families with children are being forcibly evacuated, almost half of them from the Mykolaiv community, from where 129 children were evacuated.