Nearly 100,000 civilians, including more than 34,000 children, have been resettled to different regions of Ukraine from the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO), with about 3,300 people leaving the zone in the past 24 hours, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.
“Nearly 100,000 civilians, including over 34,000 children, have been resettled from the ATO area to other regions of Ukraine. As many as 3,292 people left the combat zone in the past 24 hours. Together with displaced persons from Crimea, over 116,000 people have been temporarily housed in other regions,” he said at a briefing on Aug. 20th.
Lysenko said that most internally displaced persons had arrived in Kyiv (about 21,000 people), Dnipropetrovsk region (nearly 14,000), Zaporizhia region (13,660), Kharkiv region (13,408) and Odesa region (7,798).
