Number of registered IDPs in Ukraine increases by 22,000

Published Nov. 12, 2019 at 4:00 pm

Daryna Uskova shows photos of her house inShyrokyne, a coastal village 20 kilometers eastof Mariupol, which was heavily damaged byshelling. Uskova, who left Shyrokyne in May2015, now lives in Mariupol along with up to 800 other IDPs from the front line village.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas and Crimea registered in Ukraine as of November 11, 2019, increased by 22,000 people, to 1.419 mln people.

“As of November 11, 2019, according to the Unified Information Database of Internally Displaced Persons, 1.419,285 people displaced from the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea were registered,” the press service of the Social Policy Ministry of Ukraine reported.

As reported, 1.397,300 IDPs were registered as of August 5, 2019.