1 million people have already registered as new internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a result of the Russian invasion on February 24, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. “We support internally displaced persons. 1 million people have already officially registered,” Shmyhal said in his address on Tuesday evening. The Prime Minister also noted that in the front-line cities, the authorities continue to distribute free food packages.
“The state buys products mainly from Ukrainian manufacturers in order to load them with orders. For most items, they purchased from 30 to 80% of everything they need,” he said. Shmygal also said that more than 5,000 employers have already applied for clarifications on receiving compensation for the employment of displaced persons. According to the Ministry of Social Policy, as of April 9, about 900,000 IDPs were officially registered in Ukraine. As the UN has previously noted, the Russian-led war against Ukraine has triggered one of the fastest-growing refugee and IDP emergencies on record: the organization predicts the number of IDPs in Ukraine has reached 7.1 million, up from 854,000 before the start of the war, and The number of refugees abroad could rise to 4 million from 53,000.
According to the UN map, there are about 2.9 million IDPs in western Ukraine, 1.4 million in the central regions on the right bank of the Dnieper, 1.3 million to the northeast of Kyiv, south near Kiev and north of Odessa and Nikolaev – 357 thousand each and on the left bank of the Dnieper in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions – 857 thousand.
