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Over 164,000 children have been moved from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine to safer regions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin, said in a press release. interview with Ukrinform. “During the evacuation, authorities at all levels, together with volunteer groups and individuals, successfully evacuated more than 1.3 million civilians, including 164,000 children and 42,000 persons with disabilities,” the governor said. According to Filashkin, currently more than 70,000 civilians reside in frontline communities close to the hostilities. Filashkin then recalled that as of February 24, 2022, more than 1.9 million people lived in the Donetsk region, while today there are approximately 523,600.