The ZMINA Human Rights Center called on representatives of state bodies of Ukraine to help people leave the occupation, and not condemn them. The corresponding position of human rights activists was published on the official website of the organization.

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They stressed that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians remain in the de facto occupied territories in Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Mykolaiv regions and in Crimea, who still do not have the opportunity to safely travel to the territories controlled by the government of Ukraine..

" It is thanks to our fellow citizens who remained in the occupation that state authorities and politicians have the opportunity to show the whole world that the inhabitants of the occupied territories are recalcitrant and do not accept the occupation regime of the Russian Federation even at gunpoint,"

They added that now the state has changed its rhetoric.

" Even if a person decides to leave, there is a high probability of standing in the field under the threat of shelling,"

Human rights activists are sure that along with calls to leave the occupied territories, information should be provided on guaranteed safe evacuation corridors, further accommodation of residents of the occupied territories, assistance and support that the state, international organizations and public volunteer initiatives are ready to provide them..

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Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk called on teachers in the occupied territories not to work for the occupiers and to think over this issue especially carefully before the new academic year.

At the same time, the minister appealed to parents with a request not to send their children to schools organized by the occupiers, and at the first opportunity to leave the occupied region, where fighting will take place until it is completely liberated..

At the same time, Lesya Litvinova, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the SVOI Charitable Foundation, criticized Vereshchuk for such a position.. According to her, teachers should help children who will remain in the occupation.