Currently, there are no grounds for the mandatory evacuation of the population from the territory of the Kharkiv region, but plans for its implementation, if necessary, are being developed.
Oleh Syniegubov, the head of the Kharkiv regional administration, reported about this on the air of the national telethon.
"First of all, this is planned training, which we constantly carry out taking into account the military situation. And, secondly, this is preparation for winter: given the state of our critical infrastructure, we must provide for evacuation from the territories adjacent to the contact line and the city of Kharkiv. These are planned measures for which we must be ready," he said.
The grounds for mandatory evacuation may be the danger surrounding the city or the high probability that the settlement will fall into the zone of active hostilities.
"Currently, there are no grounds for mandatory evacuation from Kharkiv region and Kharkiv," Syniegubov said.
- Mandatory evacuation in Donetsk region began on August 2. Subsequently, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Reintegration Iryna Vereshchuk reported that evacuation may be introduced in several more regions — Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
- According to the head of the Donetsk regional administration Pavel Kyrilenko, officials hope that a little more than 200,000 people will remain in the region by the heating season. The state will be able to provide them with heat. As of now, approximately 350,000 residents live in Donetsk region.
- On August 19, Iryna Vereshchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Ukrainian Workersʼ Party of Ukraine, reported that more than seven thousand people had been evacuated from the Donetsk region since the beginning of August. Among them, almost 1.5 thousand are children.