“Regarding the communities classified as zones of active combat — that’s 20 communities — 14.7 thousand civilians choose to remain there”, - the head of the operational-duty service, communications, alerts, and public information division of the Department for Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense Work of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration said during an online briefing, reports Ukrinform.
He added that there are no children in these territories.
According to him, since February 2022, more than 1,315,000 people have been evacuated from the settlements of Donbas controlled by Ukrainian authorities, among them more than 201,000 children and more than 47,000 people with disabilities.