MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Ukraine has forcibly evacuated more than 100,000 people from Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic areas it controls since August 2022, said the country’s ministry in charge for the reintegration of territories that Ukraine ceased to control.

It said on Telegram that mandatory evacuation of the civilians from the Kiev-controlled parts of the DPR began in August 2022 and affected more than 100,000 citizens, including 13,200 children and more than 4,800 people with limited mobility."

Ukraine has been relocating some people citing security threats. In early October, the reintegration ministry said that since April, 856 children had been forcibly evacuated from the Kharkov Region, the Kiev-controlled parts of the DPR and the Zaporozhye Region, 79 of which were removed from 17 settlements in the Kupyansky District of the Kharkov Region. At the end of November, the authorities reported the completion of the evacuation of almost 300 children from the Kupyansky District.

On October 23, the Ukrainian government announced the forced removal of children from Kiev-controlled areas of the DPR and the Kherson Region. Initially, it was reported that 21 settlements would be evacuated, but later that number increased to 23. On October 29, the Ukraine-appointed head of the military administration of Kherson, Aleksander Prokudin, said hundreds of children and their parents had been taken away from Kiev-controlled areas of the Kherson Region. In addition, according to Ukrainian news media, almost 4,000 people were evacuated from Sumy Region settlements that sit along the border with Russia.