{"id":41611,"date":"2024-08-23T02:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41611"},"modified":"2024-08-23T02:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:37:44","slug":"parents-hide-children-from-mandatory-evacuations-as-ukraine-says-russia-advancing-fast-on-key-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41611","title":{"rendered":"Parents hide children from mandatory evacuations as Ukraine says Russia advancing fast on key city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNN \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk<\/a>, a strategically important location, amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities in and around Pokrovsk are being urged to flee within the next two weeks as Russian forces push forward \u2013 which comes despite Ukraine\u2019s own incursion<\/a> into Russian territory that has taken Moscow by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Russia insisted it had thwarted another Ukrainian attempt to push into the border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine continues to make advances into the Kursk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, children with their parents or other legal guardians will be forcibly evacuated from certain districts, including Pokrovsk, according to the ministry responsible for the reintegration of regions that previously fell under Russian control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pokrovsk is not a large city \u2013 about 60,000 people lived there before the war, and many have left since the start of the full-scale invasion. But it serves as a key hub for the Ukrainian military thanks to its easy access to Kostiantynivka, another military center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that <\/strong>Pokrovsk is now \u201cthe hottest\u201d front of the war. Troops are repelling Russian attacks and fighting in multiple locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire community encompasses Pokrovsk City, nearby Myrnohrad town and 39 surrounding villages, according to the Pokrovsk City military administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly 600 to 700 people have been evacuating daily, the administration said. On Thursday, the national rail network said at least 371 people evacuated from Prokrovsk by train, with the network having to add nine carriages to accommodate the large crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t wait. It will not get better, it will only get worse. Leave,\u201d was the stark warning from local official Yurii Tretiak, head of the military administration in the town of Myrnohrad, which is now less than 3 miles from the frontline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Tretiak said many people are still reluctant to leave \u2013 even going so far as to hide their children from local authorities, promoting the military administration to make house visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have cases when parents hide their children. Today (August 20) we will have a meeting with the police to discuss how we will work with such people, how we will search for such parents who hide children and give false information that the children have long since left,\u201d he said, noting that dangers are increasing with some areas of town facing daily attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose who hesitated a week ago have mostly decided and are leaving en masse,\u201d he said, noting that for residents who have yet to evacuate, \u201cthe most common argument is that \u2018I have nowhere to go\u2019 or \u2018no one needs me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe enemy is advancing faster than expected,\u201d Tretiak said in a radio interview on Tuesday. \u201cSo we are trying to do as much as possible to evacuate people by the end of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian troops use the road connecting the two to resupply the front lines and evacuate casualties toward Dnipro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN \u2014  Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a strategically important location, amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly. Communities in and around Pokrovsk are being urged to flee within the next two weeks as Russian forces push forward \u2013 which comes despite Ukraine\u2019s own incursion into Russian territory that has taken Moscow by surprise. On Thursday, Russia insisted it had thwarted another Ukrainian attempt to push into the border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine continues to make advances into the Kursk region. In Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, children with their… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41613,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611\/revisions\/41613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}