About 340,000 people remained in Donetsk oblast, all the rest had already evacuated to the territory of other regions.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk oblast military administration, reported about this on the air of telethon.
"On February 24, 1.67 million people permanently lived in the controlled part of the oblast, and now there are about 340,000 Ukrainians left there," Kyrylenko noted, adding that 252 Donetsk residents were evacuated from the Bakhmut and Pokrovsk districts over the past 24 hours.
According to the head of the oblast military administration, the route, equipment and everything necessary for the evacuation of the population have already been established, but the problems with the places of temporary stay of the evacuated residents of Donetsk still need to be resolved.
- After the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast, the occupation forces of Russia concentrated their forces in the Donetsk direction. Recently, the Russians have been hitting residential areas of the region more and more often, killing civilians.