Forced evacuation of children to be announced in two districts in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Mandatory evacuation of children from the Vasylivka and Polohy districts in Zaporizhzhia Oblast is planned for Monday, 28 August. Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Ukraine's Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, on the national joint 24/7 newscast Quote: "Today [28 August - ed.] we will have a meeting of the evacuation headquarters, where we will announce a mandatory evacuation of children from two districts of Zaporizhzhia Oblast - Vasylivka and Polohy districts.

We have to evacuate 5 settlements, 54 children." Details: Vereshchuk says that there is a forced evacuation of children ongoing from the Vovchansk hromada in Kupiansk district in Kharkiv Oblast [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.]. Evacuation is also ongoing in Donetsk Oblast.

A total of 89 children remain in 11 settlements.

Background:

On 13 July, one person was killed in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, due to Russian shelling, and the invaders destroyed three houses.
Six people were injured, including a seven-year-old girl; one man died in hospital, and another one remains in critical condition as a result of the shelling of the village of Prymorske in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on 14 May.

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