Ukraine evacuates more than 500 minors from Kramatorsk

DPAWed, August 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM UTC1 min readAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.

Due to the growing threat posed by Russian attacks, 525 children and young people in and around the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, near the front line, are being evacuated.

"The security situation is deteriorating, so it is unacceptable to expose children to the constant threat of Russian attacks," said Vadym Filashkin, the military governor of the Donetsk region. He described it as a difficult but necessary decision.

The opration involves 59 minors from the village of Krasnotorka, 140 from the village of Bilenke and 326 from Kramatorsk. The children are from 424 families.

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The metropolitan area around Sloviansk and Kramatorsk is the last major stronghold that Ukrainian troops hold under their control in the Donetsk region.

Russia, which has been waging war in Ukraine for more than four years, is demanding the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donetsk region as a precondition for peace negotiations. Kramatorsk is less than 15 kilometres from the front line.