This decision was made following a meeting of the Coordination Headquarters for Evacuation Measures and Effective Response to Mass Displacement of the Population. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Ryabykin.
A decision was also made to evacuate residents from institutional care facilities in Zaporizhzhia region, located approximately 50 km from the line of contact. The evacuation will take place taking into account security requirements, medical indications and proper support.
The issue is under the personal control of the Deputy Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine Tetyana Kiriyenko.
Separately, the meeting considered the issue of the functioning of transit centers for evacuees. The participants discussed the possibility of opening an additional center in the Kharkiv region.
For reference. Since June 1, 2025, almost 124 thousand people have been evacuated from the frontline territories of Ukraine to safer regions, including more than 14.5 thousand children and more than 4 thousand people with limited mobility.
Evacuation data by region:
Donetsk region – more than 85.4 thousand people have been evacuated, including almost 9.3 thousand children and more than 600 people with limited mobility;
Dnipropetrovsk region – more than 24.6 thousand people have been evacuated, including more than 4 thousand children and almost 1 thousand people with limited mobility;
Sumy region – more than 4.1 thousand people have been evacuated, including more than 350 children and more than 700 people with limited mobility;
Kherson region – more than 3.5 thousand people have been evacuated, including more than 300 children and almost 230 people with limited mobility;
Kharkiv region – more than 5.4 thousand people were evacuated, including almost 350 children and more than 1.6 thousand people with reduced mobility;
Zaporizhia region – more than 800 people were evacuated, including more than 80 children and almost 20 people with reduced mobility.
Today, 20 transit centers operate in several regions in Ukraine. The largest number of them is in Dnipropetrovsk region – eight, including in the cities of Pavlohrad, Dnipro and the villages of Stepove and Voloske. Five transit centers operate in Sumy region, two in Kharkiv, three in Volyn, one in Mykolaiv and one in Zaporizhia.
In transit centers, people receive comprehensive assistance: humanitarian, medical, psychological, legal and social. They are helped to restore documents, issue payments and social services, as well as receive financial support from the state and humanitarian organizations.
Since the beginning of August 2024, the transit center in Pavlohrad has received more than 36.2 thousand people. Since August 19 of this year, more than 11.2 thousand people have passed through Lozova, and since August 23 of this year, more than 5 thousand people have passed through Voloske.
After the transit center, evacuees can use the services of free temporary accommodation facilities (TTP). In total, there are 1,111 of them in Ukraine. They provide more than 80.5 thousand beds for IDPs. Currently, more than 7.8 thousand places remain vacant. For people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility, more than 3.5 thousand places have been created, of which 81 are free.
The largest number of TTPs has been created in the following regions: Dnipropetrovsk – 135; Zakarpattia – 111; Kharkiv – 78; Kirovohrad – 77; Lviv – 68; Poltava – 64; Chernivtsi – 63; Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk each 60; Rivne – 58; Khmelnytskyi – 57.
The evacuation of the population is taking place in close cooperation between the State Emergency Service, the National Police, local communities, volunteers and international partners. Specialized units are working directly in the frontline areas – the Phoenix group of the State Emergency Service and the White Angel group of the National Police.
They are equipped with armored vehicles, medical equipment and equipment for transporting people of all population groups. At the same time, the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity, together with local communities, organizes the transportation of citizens with limited mobility to hospitals and specialized institutions immediately after their evacuation.
The main task remains to ensure proper living conditions for vulnerable groups of the population and open new temporary accommodation points in safer regions of the country.