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We therefore welcome your refusal to sign the bill into law, for there is now an opportunity for parliament to improve the legislation by consulting with those who have expertise to offer and to address critical issues facing IDPs, such as the residential registration process and protection from discrimination. The flow of displaced people from the east that started in May initially also included political activists and journalists that opposed the anti-Ukraine insurgency.
However, as the counter-insurgency operation advanced and fighting between insurgents and Ukrainian forces intensified, ordinary people also started fleeing the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, especially towns controlled by insurgents at the time, such as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. While the largest number of people currently displaced hail from eastern Ukraine, displacement from Crimea also continues.
The majority of people interviewed by Human Rights Watch who came from eastern regions of Ukraine said that they fled from the ongoing hostilities.
Those coming from Crimea said they left out of fear of persecution due to their political views or religious and ethnic background. Several people also said that they did not want to be forced to obtain Russian citizenship. In a June 7 media interview, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development acknowledged that there was no ministry or department responsible for people who are evacuating from the east.
Many people displaced from the east and interviewed by Human Rights Watch described leaving abruptly, without most of their possessions or a clear understanding of where they could go. Those who had no relatives or friends in other parts of Ukraine said they had an utter lack of information about places where they could obtain urgent assistance. They started shooting frequently three weeks before we left but we kept hoping that it would stop.
On June 13, the windows in our flat blew out because of an explosion nearby.
The next night we all slept on the floor away from the windows. But the explosions got louder and louder so we went to our country house. That night the house shook from explosions so we slept in the basement, my six year old was crying all night. In the morning, we got a bus to Donetsk. They would not let people take anything on the bus because there was no room and so many people wanting to leave. So the driver told people to leave their bags of clothes and food behind if they wanted to save themselves.
I work for the railroad so I got my salary but my husband, who worked at a factory, has not been paid since May. He wants to leave but they have no money. Elena, 50, from the city of Krasnodon in Luhansk region, said she took her three daughters, ages 6, 16, and 18, and left after hearing rumors of possible attacks:. When they shelled Metallist [a village near Luhansk] in mid-June, he called my husband and told him that in three days the same thing will happen in Krasnodon.
I did not raise my children to see a war in the 21 st century. My ex-husband gave me money and we left on the same day. My mother stayed, she is elderly and did not feel strong enough to travel. In Kiev, groups such as House of Friends have set up databases of local residents willing to temporarily house displaced persons in their private flats and houses. For instance, a coordinator with House of Friends told Human Rights Watch that as of June 20, the group had been able to arrange temporary housing for at least one-third of the approximately people families that had contacted them for assistance.
Regional authorities have in some cases arranged for hotels, dormitories, study centers, and resort areas to temporarily host displaced people. Conditions vary but are mostly satisfactory; some establishments, however, are not suitable for long-term habitation. For instance, since May approximately Crimean Tatars have been staying at a vocational school in Novaya Greblya, a village near the town of Vinnytsya, that has no showers or kitchen while they are waiting for a dormitory that is currently being renovated, an activist from Vinnytsya Human Rights Group told Human Rights Watch.
Several told Human Rights Watch about the mold and broken showers and toilets. A volunteer with the group Volonterskaya Sotnya told Human Rights Watch that the displaced people are working to improve their living conditions using materials provided by volunteer groups.
In most cases, the temporary housing provided is not sustainable for different reasons: some lack central heating and cannot be used during fall and winter, while some displaced people have had to leave other housing because of unresolved rent or other issues. For instance, a group of Crimean Tatars who had been living in a summer camp in Vinnitsya had to leave when children arrived for the season.
Local activists in Lviv told Human Rights Watch that hotels and resorts had told them that they had begun to give displaced people deadlines for moving out so that the establishments could receive paying guests. Human Rights Watch also spoke with a group of Crimean Tatars who arrived in Vinnytsya after leaving Crimea in the middle of March and are currently living on the premises of an Evangelical Baptist church in Vinnytsya. The group includes 45 people, including 26 children, 3 pregnant women, and a wheelchair-bound man.
Yusuf, one of the elders, and several other members of the group, told Human Rights Watch that they were experiencing difficulties finding long-term housing that would allow them to focus on finding work and becoming self-sufficient. Most people displaced from Crimea who currently reside in Kiev, Vinnytsya, and Lviv regions who spoke with Human Rights Watch talked about continuing problems obtaining new residency registration, resulting in them not being able to receive their social payments, including pensions; access banking services; register for unemployment; or conduct other activities, such as registering as a private entrepreneur.
She told Human Rights Watch that the authorities would not allow her to register as an entrepreneur in Kiev as she is required by law to do to start working or open a bank account because she was still registered as an entrepreneur in Crimea, but that she was also unable to de-register in Crimea. The authorities in Kiev did offer to provide her housing at a homeless shelter, but then she was required to provide a document to the effect that she had no private property in Crimea.
Others described the same arbitrary, bureaucratic barriers preventing them from accessing their benefits. He told Human Rights Watch that because of continuing problems obtaining new residency registration, he could not register for unemployment benefits and had to rely on donations from a local church to provide for him and his family of four while he was solving housing issues and looking for work.
Marina from Luhansk, who is currently living in a state-provided dormitory of a local college of technology in the town on Drogobych near Lviv said that she had a private construction-related business in Luhansk together with her husband. She said she fled from Luhansk in a hurry with her two children, 11 and 14, after she heard shots being fired on the street. She said she had no residence registration and was not able to get unemployment benefits because she was still registered as an entrepreneur in Luhansk but could not travel back to de-register because of the ongoing armed conflict.
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