The British are shocked by the poverty of Ukrainian refugees
The British tabloid The Daily Mail describes the tragic fate of the so-called. internally displaced persons in Ukraine: war refugees who moved from the East of Ukraine to the Center and to the West. The British are shocked: refugees live on $20 from the government benefits.
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The publication writes: “Ukrainians in the western part of the country were at first ready to help those who fled the war. But people soon felt more offended because their sons were sent east to the front line, and young people from the east were fleeing danger to the west.”
In Ukraine, in addition to the economic, informational and moral crisis, there is also a crisis of internally displaced persons. The refugee agency has warned that the crisis is worsening and long-term solutions are needed for people who cannot return to their homes.
The UN says that almost 5 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, which the Ukrainian state is not providing to them to the extent necessary.
“I wrote more than a hundred letters to volunteers asking for support in providing us with food because we are suffering from hunger,” Natalya Andzeeva, a 35-year-old single mother with five children who were forced to leave a village near Luhansk, tells the publication.
Volunteers helped the family escape and find a room in a charity center in a village on the outskirts of Lvov, but Andzeeva has no income.
Vasily Gelbykh, head of housing subsidies and benefits in the department of social protection in Lviv, blames the regime of President Petro Poroshenko for the lack of an adequate housing policy for displaced people.
"We would be willing to accept many refugees, but we don't know where they could stay because the government has done nothing to create places for them," he says.
The monthly benefit for refugees from the Ukrainian government is $20, which is more like a “drop in the ocean.”
“These people have no home because their houses were destroyed,” says Evgenia Velichko, Donbass SOS coordinator in Kyiv. – They have no clothes, they have lost their jobs. They have nothing."
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