More than 120,000 people have fled front-line Donetsk region since August, UNHCR says
Nataliya Biadovska holds up a photograph of her son Timur , a soldier who was killed in a 2022 Russian strike on a military base in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. She now lives in Lviv in western Ukraine. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlinAndriy Khozhev fled his hometown of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine a decade ago, and had to buy his father’s freedom from Russian-led militants who threatened to kill him for displaying a Ukrainian flag in his car.
“We definitely won’t be going back soon. Now I have to think of the children, and make sure they can go to school and study. We left almost everything there, but now we must prioritise our safety and making a future,” Gubyak says. Raisa Ilchyk, guardian to four children whose parents were killed in shelling near Donetsk airport in 2014, evacuated them and fled Slovyansk in Donetsk region in 2022. Now Russian troops are only about 50km from the strategic city.
Nataliya Biadovska’s soldier son Timur was killed in a Russian missile attack on a base in Mykolaiv in 2022. She evacuated to Lviv with her husband, who died after illness last year. Now she gives advice and support to newly displaced people who arrive at the shelter. Andriy Khozhev and Raisa Ilchyk at the Centre for Support and Protection shelter in Lviv in western Ukraine. Both are from the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Khozhev runs the shelter and Ilchyk lives there along with other people displaced by Russia's invasion. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin
“In Donetsk region, the intensified shelling and hostilities have resulted in numerous civilian casualties, damaged homes and disrupted essential services, and this has led to significant displacement and mandatory evacuations from frontline communities with more than 120,000 people leaving their homes in the region since beginning of August,” she adds.
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