Kyiv takes in most Ukrainian resettlers, numbers smallest in Transcarpathia
KYIV. Aug 22 (Interfax) - Some 122,287 citizens, including 40,647 children, have moved from Crimea, Sevastopol and eastern Ukraine to other regions of the country, the interdepartmental coordination staff said on Friday.
"The accommodation of these citizens and their support has caused the biggest problems in Kyiv [which has taken in 21,740 resettlers], the Zaporizhzhya region (15,194), the Dnipropetrovsk region (14,415), the Kharkiv region (13,942), the Odesa region (8,016), the Poltava region (6,934), the Kyiv region (5,594) and the Lviv region (4,625). The number of the resettlers is the smallest in the Ternopil region (884 people), the Volyn region (886), the Rivne region (1,007) and Transcarpathia (1,180)," the staff reported.
Six transit stations have been deployed on the army operation perimeter by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service to accommodate 200 to 400 internally displaced persons each, the staff said, adding that the stations were located in the area of Krasnoarmeisk, Volnovakha and Mariupol in the Donetsk region, Svatovo and Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, and Orly in the Pokrovskyi district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Some 390 persons have passed through the Shchastya post in the Luhansk region in the past 24 hours. The number stands at 8,170 for the entire period.
