Nearly 600 children remain in combat zone in Donetsk region

Dmytro Petlin, head of the directorate of operational duty service, communications, alerting and informing the population at the Department for Civil Protection, Mobilization and Defense Work at the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said this at an online briefing, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"There are about 61,000 people, including 580 children, in the settlements that are classified as an area of active hostilities, and these are 19 communities," Petlin said.

According to him, these communities with front-line towns and villages include Pokrovsk, Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Bakhmut, Soledar, Zvanivka, Siversk, Illinivka, Kostiantynivska, Lyman, Hrodivka, Kurakhove, Marinka, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka, Ocheretyne, Selydove, Vuhledar and Novoselivka.