Ukraine orders the evacuation of three thousand children and their families from 40 villages

Ukrainian Reconstruction Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said via the Telegram application "Due to the difficult security situation, it was decided to forcibly evacuate more than three thousand children and their families from 44 villages located on the front lines in the Zaporizhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions."

Russia-Ukraine War

He noted that evacuations were also carried out in the last days of December in the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine.

He reported that "The total number of people evacuated from the front areas to safer ones since June 1, 2025 has reached 150,000 people, including about 18,000 children."

The Ukrainian authorities’ announcement of the evacuation of civilians reflects the extent of the advance of Russian forces on the front, as they have begun to threaten new towns.

Forced evacuation of civilians in Ukraine

Most of the forced evacuation of civilians in Ukraine in recent years has been carried out in the eastern Donetsk region, where most of the battles are concentrated.

But the Russian army is also advancing in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which it entered in the summer. 2025, and in the Zaporizhya region, where the contact line remained fixed for years.