GENEVA (Switzerland), May 10 (EFE).- In a presentation on the war in Ukraine, the World Organization for Migration (IOM) announced this Tuesday that eight million people had to be internally displaced due to the Russian occupation. .
The amount represents a 24% increase “compared to the first internal displacement figures released on 16 March”, according to a document released by IOM, which made a new assessment of the field between 17 April and the last day. 3.
The organization also confirmed, in a series of surveys, that two-thirds of the displaced felt that the best way to help them was to provide cash assistance to buy food and medicine, versus 49% who initially opted for such support. Fight.
The second most important need of the respondents is shelter, as 27% of IDPs said their houses were destroyed or damaged, while one in ten people asked for materials and tools to repair their houses.
IOM data also shows that 2.7 million people have returned to their homes in Ukraine, with almost all returning from regions in the same region or others in the country, with fewer refugees from other countries.
Since the beginning of the war, IOM has provided direct assistance to 320,000 people with food, hygiene items, money and psychosocial care.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 5.92 million people left Ukraine because of the war, the vast majority of them going to neighboring countries.
source: Noticias
