Ukraine will evacuate children from five localities located on the southern front, in the region of Zaporizhia, announced on Tuesday August 29, the Ministry of Reintegration, in the face of “a difficult security situation and bombardments” Russian. In total, “54 children and 67 people accompanying them will be evacuated,” the ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram.
The five localities concerned are those of “Guuliaipole, Stepnogirsk, Preobrajenka, Egorivka and Novopavlivka”, specified the Ukrainian ministry, according to which the decision was taken “unanimously” during a meeting of local officials. According to the same source, “in addition to children, the mandatory evacuation will also apply to people with reduced mobility who live in the mentioned localities”.
The announcement comes as Ukraine said on Tuesday it had advanced near Robotyne, a village about 50 km southeast of the localities affected by the evacuations.
Its counter-offensive, launched at the beginning of June in this southern zone, as well as in the East, is however difficult to recover and has only allowed at this stage to retake a few villages. On the spot, the Russians had several months to fortify their positions, in particular with trenches and large minefields, spread over several lines extending hundreds of kilometers.
