Kiev (EFE).- Ukrainian police and volunteers evacuated this Monday from the part controlled by Kiev in the province of Kherson in southern Ukraine, 366 children and minors who until now had been exposed to attacks by Russian artillery, reported the Ministry of the Ukrainian Interior on his Twitter account.
“366 children from Jerson province have been evacuated by police and volunteers,” the Ministry said in the note, picked up today by the national news agency Ukrinform. These minors still lived in the district of Beryslav, situated on the western bank of the Dnipro River, which divides the province of Jershon in two.
Russia has occupied the part that is to the east of the Dnipro river, while Ukraine controls the western bank, in which the capital of the province, also called Kherson, is located.
The areas where the evacuated children lived “are being heavily attacked by Russian artillery,” the ministry said in its note posted on Twitter.
According to the Kherson Military Administration, the part of the province under Kiev control was shelled more than 70 times by Russia in the past 24 hours, with Russian forces launching more than 360 heavy artillery attacks. EFE
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