The number of displaced people in Ukraine is decreasing because they are returning to the occupied territories.
Now the situation is worsening – our number of IDPs is decreasing, because they are returning to the Ukrainian border and front-line cities due to socio-economic difficulties in a new place! This is a serious concern,” Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said at the public summit “(Ro)connected: Rethinking Community Resilience in Ukraine.”
It presented the results of a study of the polarization of Ukrainian society. The study showed that there is no split or polarization of society as such.
I raised this issue at the government level. The state should directly say what kind of financial assistance a person can count on so that he can have confidence in his future, the Ombudsman said.
As part of the discussion, Lubinets talked about whether there is a distance between internally displaced persons and Ukrainians who do not have such experience.
This is a personal story for me, because I myself am from Volnovakha, which is temporarily occupied. In 2022, problems between IDPs and host communities were minimal. Later, unfortunately, we began to record an increase in the number of problems when negative cases of interaction began to be disproportionately shown on social networks and the media,” said Lubinets.
Source: Racurs
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