As of the beginning of summer, there are 20,811 children remaining in the territory of Donetsk Oblast controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
The majority of them are school-age children, aged 7 to 17, numbering 17,224. There are 1,541 children aged 0 to 3 and 1,954 children aged 4 to 6 remaining in the Donetsk region.
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.
Yulia Ryzhakova, head of the Children's Services Department, noted that 174 children remain in the territory of active hostilities. There are 174 children living in the Lyman community, 5 children in the village of Shcherbinivka in the Toretsk community, and 1 child in the village of Vesele in the Komarsk community.
There are 224 children remaining in six settlements where families with children are being forcibly evacuated. There are six children in the Lyman community, one child in the Kryvyi Rih community, and 75 children in the Dobropillia community. There are 142 children in the village of Oleksievo-Druzhkivka in the Druzhkivka community.
Over the past week, 87 children have been evacuated from settlements where families with children are being forcibly evacuated.
Two children were taken from the Shakhov community, 24 children from the Dobropillia community, and 61 children from the Druzhkivka community.
If people who have volunteered for evacuation have nowhere to go, they are helped to find free accommodation in safer regions of Ukraine. This was reiterated by Dmytro Pozharsky, head of the social services department of the social protection department.
Over the past week, 46 residents of Donetsk region, including 13 people with reduced mobility, were provided with free accommodation. The residents of Donetsk region were settled in the Kirovohrad region and in the Save Ukraine shelters in Kyiv and Lviv. Today, five people left for Poltava, and six more residents with reduced mobility will go to the Khmelnytskyi region.
Dmytro Pozharsky once again emphasized the importance of timely evacuation to safer regions of Ukraine. A pregnant resident of Donetsk region, who was sure that it was too early for her to give birth, gave birth to a child right on the evacuation train near Oleksandriya in Kirovohrad region. She was hospitalized in the maternity ward, and when she was discharged, the evacuation continued. The young mother and her newborn baby were evacuated to her husband in Rivne region, where he had already settled and even found a job.