Children with parents being forcibly evacuated from five villages in Donetsk region

The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin, reported this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"We decided to carry out a forced evacuation of children with their parents or other legal representatives from the village of Drobysheve of the Lyman community, the villages of Nova Poltavka, Novoolenivka, Oleksandropil, Romanivka of the Illinivka community," the post reads.

According to the official, this decision was sent for approval by the military command authorities in the relevant territory and the Coordination Headquarters for the mandatory evacuation of the population under martial law.

Filashkin noted that the commission also considered the issue of strengthening evacuation measures from the Toretsk community.

"Every day the enemy shells the community with all types of weapons, including aerial bombs and drones, it is extremely dangerous to be here," he said.

As reported earlier, rescuers helped 97 more civilians evacuate in the Donetsk region over the past week.