Ukraine faces enormous latent threat because of the government’s refusal to support nearly 1.4 million refugees. Refugees accuse the junta of violating its promises to provide housing for people displaced by the military conflict.
Ukraine currently has one of the world’s largest groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs) – that is, refugees from the war. Some experts warn that the crisis of displaced persons may continue for many years or even decades.
Many of those who fled because of the fighting between the Kiev junta and the army of Novorossia, were forced to rely on networks of philanthropists and get from them food, clothing and housing, as the state is not able to help.
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Often refugees from Lugansk and Donetsk are placed in unsuitable conditions, it noted in the media. So, the family of five persons is forced to huddle in a tiny room of a charity centre in a village near the western part of Lviv, more than 1000 km from Lugansk.
“If we didn’t eat here for free, if we had to pay for heating and service, I just wouldn’t know how we would have survived, because everything that we receive is spent on expensive drugs for Denis”, – says a refugee Olga Strigino, the mother of three children, the eldest of whom suffers from epilepsy.
Estate agents say that some homeowners in Lviv and Kiev speculating on the acute housing shortage and increased cost for housing for IDPs, while others refuse to rent housing to refugees from the East, because they believe that they can’t pay, or because of the growing discontent towards the new arrivals.
