Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of thousands of children and their parents from frontline settlements in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions as Russian forces continue to advance, a Ukrainian official said on Friday.
Restoration Minister Oleksiy Kuleba stated on Telegram that more than 3,000 children and their parents are being forcibly evacuated from 44 frontline communities due to the worsening security situation.
He added that similar evacuations are also underway in the northern Chernihiv region, which borders Belarus and has come under repeated Russian shelling. Since June 1, a total of about 150,000 people have been moved from frontline areas to safer regions, according to Kuleba.
Those evacuated include nearly 18,000 children and more than 5,000 people with limited mobility. Russian troops, who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have been steadily pushing through the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, albeit at huge cost.
Meanwhile, Moscow is preparing to massacre civilians then use fake news messaging in state-run and co-opted international media to pin blame for the mass casualty event on Ukraine, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) said on Friday in a rare public statement, the Kyiv Post reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Christmas service in a church in Saint Petersburg late on Jan. 7, 2018. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7 in the Middle East, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 17th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Greek Orthodox and commonly used in secular life around the world (Photo by Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)
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