More than 1.5 million internally displaced persons registered in Ukraine

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Jan. 2, 2019. Updated Jan. 2 at 4:25 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

As of Jan. 2, there were 1,512,435 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas and Crimea, Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry has said.

“As of Jan. 2, 2019, according to information from structural units of social protection received from regional and Kyiv state administrations, there are 1,512,435 IDPs from temporarily occupied Crimea and Donetsk, Luhansk regions,” a press release of the ministry released on Jan. 2 said.

As earlier reported, as of Feb. 12, 2018, there were 1,427,000 IDPs registered in Ukraine.