Mandatory evacuation zone expanded in Kharkiv region to evacuate more than 7,100 people

Due to intensified Russian shelling in the Bohodukhiv district of Kharkiv region, the mandatory evacuation zone has been expanded - it now covers more than seven thousand residents.

Ukrinform reports this, citing a corresponding decision adopted at a meeting of the regional Defense Council, announced on Facebook by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.

"Taking into account the security situation and systematic enemy shelling, we are expanding the mandatory evacuation zone in the Zolochiv direction. This concerns 7 settlements in Bohodukhiv district: the settlement of Zolochiv and the villages of Pysarivka, Huriiv, Lemyshchyne, Malyzhyne, Merlo, and Morozova Dolyna," the post said.

According to Syniehubov, a total of 7,157 people need to be evacuated, including 1,702 children and 311 people with limited mobility.

The Zolochiv community, which has 53 kilometers of common border with Russia, has been under shelling since the start of the full-scale invasion. Throughout 2025, according to community head Viktor Kovalenko, it has suffered 400 KAB strikes, with Russians hitting some settlements almost daily.

Until today's decision by the Defense Council, evacuation, including the forced evacuation of families with children, had already been declared in five other communities.

As Ukrinform reported, on May 31, as a result of Russian shelling in the village of Postolne in the Zolochiv community, women aged 54 and 87 were injured.