this ukrainian authorities This Tuesday they announced the start of the mandatory evacuation of the population of the Donetsk region.Intense conflicts continue in the east of the country, in that part of the country.
Iryna Vereshchuk, deputy prime minister of Ukraine and head of the department for reintegration of the occupied territories, First transport for women, children, the elderly and people with reduced mobilityReports the Ukrinform portal.
According to this source, The first train has already left the area and is expected to arrive in Kropyvnytskyi on Wednesday.
Vereshchuk emphasized that all these people received all the physical support necessary for the operations and their relocation to safe areas was guaranteed.
It is also expected that other means of transport take citizens to Lviv and other cities in the west of the countrywhere the lodgings are set up to house them.
The Ukrainian government announced last weekend its decision to continue the forced evacuation of Donetsk, in the east of the country, which has been the target of fierce military attacks in recent days of armed conflict.
In a speech broadcast on the presidential Telegram channel on Saturday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked residents who have not yet done so. Making the decision to evacuate Donetsk themselves and reassuring them that they will receive full logistical and financial assistance.
“Trust me. The sooner they do this, the more people leave the Donetsk region, the less time the Russian army will have to kill people,” he stressed, conceding that there are still “hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of people.” Most of them are children who refuse to leave.
The head of the Donetsk military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported last weekend that a total of 662 people were killed and 1,711 injured in the last month as a result of Russian attacks in the region.