Over one million IDPs in Ukraine – UN
Another 35,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were registered in Ukraine over the last week, amounting to a total of 1.421 million refugees in the country, UNHCR reported.
Out of the above-mentioned number, 367,500 people are registered in Donetsk region and 129,500 – in Luhansk region, which are partially controlled by illegal armed formations. In addition, a considerable number of refugees are registered in neighboring Kharkiv (136,900 people), Dnipropetrovsk (68,500) and Zaporizhia (75,200) regions, as well as in Kyiv (76,800) and Kyiv region (33,800), according to the map of IDPs in Ukraine posted on the UN’s website on Saturday.
A total of 2,900 refugees are registered in Volyn region, 3,100 – in Rivne region, 8,000 – in Zhytomyr region, 7,500 – in Chernihiv region, 12,900 – in Sumy region, 8,100 – both in Lviv and Kirovohrad regions, 2,300 – Ternopil region, 6,500 – in Khmelnytsky region, 10,300 – in Vinnytsia region, 11,200 – in Cherkasy region, 24,500 – in Poltava region, 2,800 – in Zakarpattia region, 3,300 – in Ivano-Frankivsk region, 2,200 – in Chernivtsi region, 21,900 – in Odesa region, 8,200 – in Mykolaiv region and 10,100 – in Kherson region.
The majority of IDPs registered in Donetsk, Luhansk and neighboring regions are retirees; in other regions the number of retirees matches the number of registered able-bodied persons and children. The highest numbers of registered able-bodied IDPs (up to 40-50%) are in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi regions.
According to UN, 268,300 Ukrainians are asylum seekers and 406,000 – are looking for another way to stay in a foreign state, including Russia. In other countries, the number of asylum seekers isn't very high, however many IDPs are looking for other ways to stay in foreign states, particularly in Belarus – 700 are seeking asylum and 80,000 people are looking for other ways to stay, in Poland – 2,700 and 35,000, in Hungary – 40 and 5,600, in Romania – 30 and 1,570, and in Moldova – 180 and 5,340. Only 20 Ukrainians are seeking asylum in Slovakia.
