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More than 840 Ukrainian companies have moved to safer regions of the country as a part of a government relocation program, with 667 of them are already operating in their new locations, the open data platform OpenDataBot reported on Oct. 23.

Children, as well as their parents and legal guardians, are to leave Toretsk, Shcherbynivka, Petrivka, Nelipivka, and Pivnichne in the Bakhmut district and Ocheretyne, Katerynivka, and Yelizavetivka in the Pokrovsk district, the regional military administration reported.

About 250 children will be mandatorily evacuated from eight settlements in the Bakhmut and Pokrovsk districts of Donetsk Oblast and taken to Zhytomyr Oblast. Source: Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine on Telegram Quote: "The decision of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration to announce the compulsory evacuation of about 250 children was unanimously supported during a meeting of the Coordination Centre for Mandatory Evacuation today [23 October]...

A group of Ukrainian orphans who fled Ukraine as refugees in March 2022 were again forced to evacuate after the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023. They are now safe in central Israel.

The removal of children to Russia has been one of the most painful issues for Ukraine since Moscow launched its invasion last year; Ukraine’s government as well as parents and humanitarian groups have made strenuous efforts to get the children back.

Russia has agreed to send the first four deported Ukrainian children back to Ukraine within the framework of the procedure upon mediation of Qatar. The scheme was approved after "months of secret negotiations" with Moscow and Kyiv.

Kyiv has said that thousands of children have been separated from their families and taken to Russia, in one of the most painful issues for Ukraine since the start of the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was accused of war crimes over the forced relocation of Ukrainian children. Qatar’s successful intervention could lead to other reunifications.

Hollywood actor and director Sean Penn praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in anemotional interview with ABC’s late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Oct. 11.

Ukrainian refugees who fled to Israel are facing the grim reality of an entirely new conflict after Hamas terrorists launched an attack on the country over the weekend.