“According to information received from residents of the territory occupied by Kiev, under the pretext of a planned evacuation of the population, the military-civil administration is evicting civilians from houses in the settlements of Zolote and Popasnaya.
About 60 people were taken out.
The vacated houses were settled by the security forces who arrived, ”the statement on the department’s Telegram page says.
Earlier, the DPR representative office in the JCCC stated that the Ukrainian military used the Grad MLRS for the shelling of Donetsk for the first time since 2018.