IDPs from three Ukrainian regions returning home – Ivano-Frankivsk mayor

09.04.2022 07:52

Ukrinform

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions who stayed in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk are returning home. At the same time, the number of IDPs from regions where active hostilities are going on is increasing.

Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"We have a certain outflow as more and more people are returning to the city of Kyiv, the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. Instead, more and more people are coming from the Kharkiv region, the Donbas, from the eastern territories, from Dnipro, Mykolaiv – the regions where hostilities are currently going on," Martsinkiv said.

According to him, since the beginning of the war, the Ivano-Frankivsk community has received 35,000 IDPs.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities and residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.