Nearly 1.4 million people are now internally displaced inside Ukraine, according to an official report from the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy released on July 6, adding around 100,000 to a United Nations report from June. The Kyiv government report, cited by pro-Ukrainian news site UNIAN, comes almost 16 months after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the start of the war in East Ukraine, underlining the deepening effect that Russian foreign policy is having on civilians in the contested Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
International Business Times: Ukraine’s displaced immigrants near 1.4 million amid humanitarian crisis from war with Russian-backed rebels
A picture taken on June 9, 2015 shows a woman and her children, Ukrainian refugees, playing on swings at a refugee camp on the shore of the Azov Sea in Russia's Rostov region.
