Ukrainian armed forces shell residential areas in DPR

Over the past 24 hours, six settlements in the DPR came under shelling by Ukrainian armed forces where 12 civilians suffered wounds and two civilian facilities were damaged, according to TASS New Agency.

The agency added that about 40,000 people, including about 6,000 children, have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine and Donbass in the past 24 hours, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center.

“Despite active resistance of the Kiev regime, 39,299 people, including 5,868 children, have been evacuated to the Russian Federation from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donbass republics in the past 24 hours, without any participation of the Ukrainian authorities,” he said.

According to Mizintsev, a total of 3,527,120 people, including 563,223 children, have left for Russia since the beginning of the special military operation.

“The state border of the Russian Federation has been crossed by 593,681 private vehicles, including 7,147 in the past 24 hours,” the general said.

Additionally, Mizintsev said that the hotline of the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, Russian regions and various public organizations have received 22 requests in the past day. People are asking to help evacuate them to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, or to the areas in the Zaporozhye, Nikolayev, Kharkov and Kherson Regions that are controlled by the Russian Armed Forces.

“To date, 2,760,341 such requests from 2,139 populated localities of Ukraine and the Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic are in the database,” he added.

 Compiled by: Basma Qaddour