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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated on 27 February 2022 that in two months there would be 7.5 million internally displaced people in Ukraine, 12 million people would be in need of healthcare and the number of people fleeing the war could reach 4 million. [57]
Similarly, the report stated that around 54,400 are internally displaced people (IDPs) within Ukraine itself. [29] Between 15,000 and 20,000 refugees arrived in Svyatogorsk from Sloviansk after the Ukrainian Armed Forces intensified shelling on the city at the end of May 2014. Remaining residents of the besieged city were without water, gas ...
Villagers fleeing gunfire in a camp for internally displaced persons during the 2008 Nord-Kivu war Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with internally displaced people during the Russian invasion of Ukraine Okie mother and children, internally displaced by the Dust Bowl in the United States in the 1930s.
The region is now home to more than 400,000 internally displaced people. Dnipro, the fourth-largest city in Ukraine, is an important center of life in the eastern part of the country.
Since February 2022, the conflict has claimed the lives of 11,126 people and injured 21,863 others, according to data in May from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Some 3.2 million Ukrainians have fled the war, and they keep on leaving. Most men stay behind, leading to crushing separations.
Organizations such as the ICRC, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and local NGOs have been active in providing food, medical care, shelter, and support for internally displaced persons. [26] [27] The conflict in Eastern Ukraine has resulted in extensive mine contamination and shifting frontlines ...
[8] [12] Violence between the Ukrainian army and the forces of the two breakaway republics escalated into an armed conflict known as the Russo-Ukrainian War. [13] [14] The war in Donbas led to 1.6 million people becoming internally displaced persons, according to the registry of the Ukrainian government. [15]