The first refugees who came to Kyiv from the eastern regions of Ukraine – Luhansk, Donetsk and Kramatorsk - have been housed in the presidential residence "Mezhyhirya" (Novi Petrivtsi village, Vyshgorod district, Kyiv region), Segodnya newspaper reported on Tuesday, May 13.
A total of a dozen refugees and nearly 20 people from Crimea were housed in a two-storey building where ex President’s Viktor Yanukovych’s servants used to live.
“The refugees were taken to Mezhyhirya the day before yesterday. We gave them the house for Yanukovych’s servants. It was built just before former president fled, so no one even managed to live there for long yet,” Mezhyhirya commandant Denys Tarakhkotelyk told the newspaper.
According to Segodnya, every refugee shares a room with one other settler. Rooms are equipped with showers, lavatories and mini-kitchens with gas ovens. Breakfasts and dinners are brought from the canteen, where Mezhyhirya employees and volunteers take meals.
Besides, 48 refugees from eastern Ukraine settled in a private children’s camp in Ivankivsky district of Kyiv region.
“Nineteen of them are children of 2-14 years old with their mothers (their fathers remained in Sloviansk). In addition to them, there are 18 more children of 5-7 years old from an orphanage, with their foster parents,” volunteers told the newspaper.
