KIEV, Feb. 24 – 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 Kiev (76,800) and Kiev region (33,800), according to the map of IDPs in Ukraine posted on the UN’s website on Saturday.
|