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Over 6,000 people were forced to leave their homes in eastern Ukraine in the past week, the UN Refugee Agency has reported.

“Amid a worsening situation in eastern Ukraine, the UN refugee agency
on Aug 5 estimated that more than 117,000 people are now displaced
inside Ukraine. In the past seven days more than 6,200 people have been
forced from their homes. As of August 1, an estimated 168,000 people
have crossed into Russia,” the agency said in a press release on Aug 5.

At the same time, the number of people displaced from the Luhansk and
Donetsk regions had risen sharply from 2,600 in early June to 102,600
at the start of August. People from eastern Ukraine now make up 87%
of the total displaced population in Ukraine, and those from Crimea
number some 15,200 people.