Evacuation of 3,000 children from 44 frontline towns. “Difficult security situation”

Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of over 3,000 people. children and their parents from 44 frontline towns of the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions – said Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba. A Russian missile strike on Kharkov on Friday injured 30 people.

The decision to evacuate was made “due to the difficult security situation,” Kułeba said in a post on Telegram. He added that since June 1, 2025, approximately 150,000 people have been evacuated from the frontline areas. people, including nearly 18 thousand kids.

On Friday, Russian troops attacked an apartment block in Kharkov with rockets. The mayor of the city, Ihor Terekhov, said that 30 people were injured in the raid. The five-story building was almost completely destroyed, Oleh Synehubov, the head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, told the media.

President Volodymyr Zelensky added that according to preliminary information, Russian troops used two missiles in the attack. Kharkiv, with over a million inhabitants, is located several dozen kilometers from the border with Russia and has been the target of subsequent attacks since the beginning of the war.

The attack on a residential building in the city center is a terrible war crime and a violation of international humanitarian law – commented Kułeba. (PAP)

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