You're reading: Kyiv takes in most internally displaced people, numbers smallest in Transcarpathia

Some 122,287 citizens, including 40,647 children, have moved from Crimea, Sevastopol and eastern Ukraine to other regions of the country, the interdepartmental coordination staff said on Aug. 22.

“The accommodation of these citizens and their support has caused the biggest problems in Kyiv [which has taken in 21,740 resettlers], Zaporizhia oblast (15,194), Dnipropetrovsk oblast (14,415), Kharkiv oblast (13,942), Odesa oblast (8,016), Poltava oblast (6,934), Kyiv oblast (5,594) and Lviv oblast (4,625). The number of internally displaced people is the smallest in Ternopil oblast (884 people), Volyn oblast (886), Rivne oblast (1,007), and Zakarpattia oblast (1,180),” the staff reported.

Six transit stations have been deployed on the army operation perimeter by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service to handle 200 to 400 internally displaced persons each, the staff said, adding that the stations were located in the area of Krasnoarmiysk, Volnovakha and Mariupol in Donetsk oblast, Svatove and Lysychansk in Luhansk oblast, and the village of Orly in Dnipropetrovsk oblast’s Pokrovsky district.

Some 390 persons have passed through the Schastia post in Luhansk oblast in the past 24 hours. The number stands at 8,170 for the entire period.