Ukraine to evacuate 130 children from nine frontline settlements in Donetsk region

Ukrainian authorities announced a mandatory evacuation from the most war-affected settlements in the Donetsk region, setting up a Coordination Headquarters to perform the operation.

The institution voted in favor of the forced evacuation from nine settlements in the Donetsk region, which are located near the areas of hostilities, such as Yampil, Zarichne, Torske, Opyksyvanka, Nikonorivka, Malynivka, Tikhonivka, Vasyutynske, and Rai Aleksandrovka.

Head of the Coordination HQ Iryna Vereshchuk called for greater involvement of international charities in helping refugees and settlers.

The head of the Donetsk military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said that 80% of the population had evacuated from the region since the start of the full-scale war.

According to the 2022 data, 1 million 670 thousand people lived in the Ukraine-controlled territory of the Donetsk region. Now, the mandatory evacuation goes on as the most dangerous areas request the rescue operation.

Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office notes Russia's full-scale war has injured 1589 children and killed 499.

Russia keeps targeting children as well as other civilians to force them to flee from Ukraine-controlled areas, surrender to the enemy forces and destroy the Ukrainian nation as a whole.

During the day, on 31 July, a 10-year-old girl died, and eight children aged 4 to 17 sustained injuries of varying severity in the Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih. 

On 31 July, a 16-year-old girl was injured in hostile shelling in Kherson.

Russian authorities claimed to have evacuated from "Ukrainian terror" about 4.8 million Ukrainians, including more than 700,000 children. The Red Cross department based in Belarus announced to have "rescued" 3,000 Ukrainian kids to the state. European allies called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka.

The arrest warrant has already been announced for Russia's Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.