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Some 45% of Donetsk region remains under control of AFU, 3/4 residents evacuated from it – Regional Administration head
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – About 350,000 residents currently remain in the part of Donetsk region controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is about a quarter of the population of this territory before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, said head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko.
"At the time of the full–scale invasion, as of February 24, there were 1.7.million of permanent residents in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities of Donetsk region – this is about two thirds of the territory. Now about 350,000 inhabitants remained on 45% of the controlled territory y… That is, 3/4 of the population of the region – let me remind you, this is the most densely populated region of Ukraine … evacuated for the entire period of a full-scale war, that is, for six months," Kyrylenko said in an interview published on the YouTube channel of Donetsk Regional Military Administration on Friday.
According to him, all the cities of the region are now under fire, but the most difficult situation is in those that are on the front line. The head of the regional administration also refuted the occupiers’ statements that Avdiyivka was taken by them in a semicircle, recalling that the city has remained frontline since 2014.
He reported on three dead and four injured civilians in Donetsk region as a result of shelling by Russian occupiers over the past day. "Every day we have actually killed and wounded civilians. Over the past day, three people were killed and four were injured," Kyrylenko said.
As reported, in the morning Kyrylenko informed that in Donetsk region during the day, Russian occupiers killed two civilians in Siversk and Zelenopillia, six more residents were injured.
