Over 500 children to be evacuated from Kramatorsk and nearby settlements in Donetsk Oblast on mandatory basis

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Over 500 children will be evacuated from certain areas of Kramatorsk and several nearby settlements on a mandatory basis under an order signed by Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration.

Source: Filashkin on Facebook

Quote: "I have signed an order introducing the mandatory evacuation of children from certain areas of the Kramatorsk hromada. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Over 500 children to be evacuated from Kramatorsk and nearby settlements in Donetsk Oblast on mandatory basis

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