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Kyiv connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) announced the mandatory evacuation of children from respective villages successful the confederate Zaporizhzhia region, pointing to a unsafe uptick successful warring and caller Russian gains.
The concern portion is 1 of 4 that Russia claims to person annexed since launching its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.
The region's main metropolis — besides called Zaporizhzhia — had a pre-war colonisation of astir 840,000 radical and present lies immoderate 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the beforehand lines with Russian troops, according to Ukrainian subject bloggers.
"We made a hard but indispensable determination — to mandate the evacuation of children unneurotic with their parents oregon ineligible guardians from 5 settlements successful the Zaporizhzhia region," Oleksiy Kuleba, a lawman premier curate of Ukraine announced connected societal media.
In a departure from erstwhile evacuation announcements, helium did not sanction the villages, but said that astir 40 children impacted would beryllium relocated to the cardinal Cherkasy region.
"Mandatory evacuation is ever a hard step. But nether changeless shelling, it is the lone liable mode to prevention lives -- archetypal and foremost, the lives of children," Mr. Kuleba added successful his statement.
Ukrainian authorities routinely impulse residents of frontline areas to flee, but mandatory evacuation notices are enforced and bespeak that the information of an impacted country has sharply deteriorated.
The beforehand enactment successful Zaporizhzhia was comparatively unchangeable for months compared to different sections further east, but Russian forces look to person since stepped up their assaults, pushing towards Zaporizhzhia city.
The Russian defence ministry earlier connected Wednesday claimed they had captured the borderline colony of Komarivka successful the northeastern Sumy region, wherever Moscow's troops are besides advancing towards the section capital.
