Kuleba: Over 3,000 children being forcibly evacuated from Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions
As part of the forced evacuation from 44 frontline settlements in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, more than 3,000 children will be taken away with their parents.
According to Ukrinform, this was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba on Facebook.
“Due to the difficult security situation, a decision was made to forcibly evacuate more than 3,000 children and their parents from 44 frontline settlements in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions,” Kuleba said.
According to him, in the Zaporizhzhia region, 651 children from four settlements in two communities are being evacuated. In Dnipropetrovsk, 2,463 children from 40 settlements in five communities are being evacuated.
Kuleba reported that the situation in the Chernihiv region was discussed separately at the Coordination Headquarters for Evacuation. On December 30, mandatory evacuation was announced in 14 settlements: it has already been completed in three, and is ongoing in eleven more.
It is important that the regions receiving evacuees coordinate their actions and provide adequate conditions for families, Kuleba stressed.
According to him, a total of 150,000 people have been evacuated from frontline areas to safer regions since June 1, 2025. Among them are almost 18,000 children and more than 5,000 people with limited mobility.
Seventeen transit centers are working to coordinate the processes. At the centers, people receive comprehensive support: humanitarian, medical, psychological, legal, and social. They are helped to restore their documents, apply for benefits and social services, and receive financial support from the state and humanitarian partner organizations.
More than 80,000 places have been prepared in temporary accommodation for internally displaced persons, which allows people to be provided with everything they need after evacuation.
There is also a 24-hour hotline (15-48) where you can find out all the necessary information about evacuation, temporary accommodation, obtaining status, and assistance for internally displaced persons.
Kuleba thanked all services, volunteer organizations, frontline communities, and regional military administrations for their swift joint action and assistance to citizens.
As reported by Ukrinform, in the Chernihiv region, 14 border villages in four communities have been declared subject to mandatory evacuation.
Illustrative photo: National Police