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Ukraine to expand mandatory evacuations on front lines

FILE PHOTO - People walk past the office building of the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which was damaged by recent shelling in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Donetsk, Ukraine, August 23, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Ukraine plans to expand the number of districts on the war's front lines where civilian evacuations will be mandatory, as those areas could be occupied and face central heating problems this winter, a deputy prime minister said on Friday.

The Ukrainian government launched a campaign of mandatory evacuations in July for people in the eastern Donetsk region that it began implementing this month.

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