Overview
- Ivan Fedorov, the Kyiv-appointed head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, said roughly 1,000 children will be moved with their families from selected communities in the Zaporizhzhia and Pology districts.
- Authorities described the measure as a mandatory evacuation from unspecified frontline settlements, citing security risks near active fighting.
- A family from Kupyansk was forcibly taken to Kharkiv and local police plan to charge the parents for allegedly failing in their parental duties after refusing an earlier evacuation.
- Regional ombudsperson Viktoriya Kolesnik-Lavinska criticized the planned prosecution, arguing the parents were protecting their children while sheltering in a basement during sustained shelling, according to her office.
- Officials note prior mandatory evacuations in the region, and Russian state media repeat disputed claims about control of Zaporizhzhia that Kyiv does not recognize.