Overview
- Dnipropetrovsk regional authorities have ordered mandatory evacuation of all remaining residents from Vasylkivka and Vyshchetarasivka, affecting more than 6,500 people, and said children from those settlements were moved earlier.
- Officials in Dnipropetrovsk have opened five transit centres to receive evacuees and to provide cash, medical, psychological, legal assistance and food and hygiene kits.
- Donetsk’s forced child‑evacuation program continues, with authorities reporting 270 children in 230 families still in five designated compulsory‑evacuation locations and 176 of those children in parts of Sloviansk.
- Regional officials say the new orders respond to repeated Russian attacks, including multiple drone strikes that damaged civilian infrastructure and caused injuries in Dnipropetrovsk.
- The measures are increasing displacement needs and will put extra strain on registration, shelter and longer‑term resettlement systems after the program of forced child evacuations began in April 2023.