The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported the ongoing exodus from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
There has been a surge in numbers of displaced persons from eastern
Ukraine, from 2,600 on June 6 to 80,300 on July 18, 2014, says a UNHCR
report seen by Interfax.
The agency said the United Nations was rendering humanitarian aid to the people returning to Slovyansk.
Reportedly, over half of the city residents have left their homes
since the beginning of the conflict. About 15,000 have returned to
Sloviansk since July 5, it said.
Humanitarian aid is primarily given to the families whose homes or
apartments were damaged or razed in the hostilities, the UNHCR report
said.
