The war in the East of Ukraine has been ongoing for five years. According to some estimates, about 3 million people lived in the occupied territories prior to the conflict. Over one million of them relocated to the government-controlled area of Ukraine – mostly to the regions close to the occupied area (see map on Figure 1). Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are two biggest hosts for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Thus we focus our attention on these particular regions.
VoxUkraine: What drives Ukrainian internal migrants?
A couple lay on beds in a tent in a transit camp for displaced people in the small eastern Ukrainian city of Svatovo, Luhansk region, on Aug. 12, 2014.
