SGN News Blast: Evacuation of civilians continues in Donetsk region

The mandatory evacuation of civilians from Donetsk region, announced earlier by the Government of Ukraine, continues.

Footage, taken on Wednesday, shows employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine organising the evacuation of residents and helping elderly people get on a train at a railway station in the town of Pokrovsk.

On July 30 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his Telegram channel announced the decision on the mandatory evacuation of citizens from the part of Donbass territory under control of Kiev.

Later, on August 2, the Government of Ukraine published an official evacuation order and made a disposition of residents' transfer to safe areas of Vinnitsa, Volyn, Zhitomir, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankovsk, Kirovograd, Lviv, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopol, Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi regions.

In turn, on Friday the head of the National Defenсe Management Centre of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev claimed that in the past 24 hours 27,500 people from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, including more than four and a half thousand children, were evacuated to Russian territory without Ukrainian authorities being involved. He added the total count of evacuees since the start of the military offensive reached 3,314,395.

Moscow launched a military offensive on Ukraine in late February after recognising the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics' independence (DPR and LPR).

Kiev has denounced the Russian offensive into its territory, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation.

During recent peace talks, Russia has required that Ukraine declares itself officially a neutral country, providing guarantees that it will never join NATO.

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