Ministry of Social Policy: Over 2 million Ukrainians internally displaced

Anastasiia Kalatur – Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 04:47

Over 2 million Ukrainian citizens have been displaced since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale military invasion.

Source: Maryna Lazebna, Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine

According to Lazebna: "The war has been going on for 8 years, and the number of those who have been forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in other parts of the country since 2014 is greater [than the 2 million displaced by the current phase of the war].

Today, the Unified Database on Internally Displaced Persons contains information on 3.4 million people.

More than 2 million of them are people who have been displaced since martial law was introduced [on 24 February 2022]. And 1.9 million of them have been forcibly displaced for the first time."

Details: Most people moved to Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Kyiv Oblasts.

The largest number of displaced people hail from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kyiv Oblasts.

Background: 5 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022.