Due to intensified Russian shelling in the Bohodukhiv district of Kharkiv region, the mandatory evacuation zone has been expanded - it now covers more than seven thousand residents.
Ukrinform reports this, citing a corresponding decision adopted at a meeting of the regional Defense Council, announced on Facebook by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
"Taking into account the security situation and systematic enemy shelling, we are expanding the mandatory evacuation zone in the Zolochiv direction. This concerns 7 settlements in Bohodukhiv district: the settlement of Zolochiv and the villages of Pysarivka, Huriiv, Lemyshchyne, Malyzhyne, Merlo, and Morozova Dolyna," the post said.
According to Syniehubov, a total of 7,157 people need to be evacuated, including 1,702 children and 311 people with limited mobility.
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