There are almost 5 million internally displaced persons – and these are only the officially registered ones.

The real figure is much higher.

People who were forced to leave their homes due to Russian aggression are now finding refuge in other regions of Ukraine. 

Where are displaced persons received, under what conditions are they housed and how do they prepare for winter, according to the story of TSN.

73 people, mostly from Donetsk region, live in the premises of the former school in Kropyvnytskyi.

The same number are waiting here from neighboring Mykolaiv and Kherson.

A dormitory is more like a hostel in terms of conditions.

The heating is centralized here. 

"We are preparing for blackouts, for the absence of water. One barrel of 300 liters for technical water is currently installed. We also have one barrel of 1,000 liters of water, it is now being installed and will be filled with water," said the director of the social hostel Vitaliy Grekul.

Mrs. Lyubov came from Kramatorsk half a year ago.

He plans to spend the winter in Kropyvnytskyi.

While there are problems with benefits and heat in his native city, he is warming up in the center of Ukraine.   

"Even now I was wearing a jacket, and I was walking like that without a jacket. And then someone opened the window, I froze, got up, closed it. And it's so warm here. A good, good battery," said displaced person Lyubov Smolyar.

They stock up on water, arrange small houses.

The director of the hostel says that the only thing missing is a generator.

There is no gas in the former school, so everything runs on electricity. 

"We need a generator with such a capacity that it will pull the stoves. Because we have everything in the light, and if there is no light, there will be no generator, then people will not be able to prepare food for themselves. But we are also preparing for these cases, we will invent something ", said Grekul.

Only a month ago, there was a ruin in the place where there is now social housing in the Lviv region.

"It was an abandoned building that had not been used for more than 10 years. It was the property of the Scientific Research Institute. This year, we took it over as communal property," said Petro Sokolovskyi, head of Novoyavorivska OTG.

The three-story building is divided into 30 smart apartments.

Ms. Olena and her two sons have just moved in, they haven't even had time to unpack yet.

The family from Lysychansk had lived in the school until now, but with the beginning of studies they were forced to move to the village council.

Now they have a small but own apartment.

"It feels like you're already at home, like your home is perceived. It's cozy here, you know you're your own boss here," said Olena Felik, a migrant from Lysychansk.

The room has a bunk bed for sons and a folding sofa.

There is a kitchenette, a refrigerator, a microwave oven, as well as a bathroom - a toilet, a shower, a washing machine.

Locals brought vegetables - potatoes, carrots, onions and apples.

"Everything is there for comfort. If before we had to get up to go to school in order to eat and wash, now we can do it without leaving our room," said Oleksiy Felik, an immigrant from Lysichansk.

This social housing is designed for 100 residents.

Renovation of the house and equipping it with furniture and household appliances cost more than UAH 20 million.

Charitable funds, foreign donors helped, part of the money came from the regional budget.

"Each smart apartment has an electric meter, a water meter, there will be a separate agreement for the Internet, garbage collection. With each family that settles here, we sign a lease agreement for six months for 1 hryvnia, but with the condition that they will pay for utilities ", said the head of the Novoyavoriv OTG.

Currently, almost 300,000 internally displaced people are officially registered in the Lviv Region.

Most of them are already settled in dormitories, social housing or live in private apartments.

But 10,000 people still need housing with better conditions, so 25 similar long-term buildings are being rebuilt in the region.

"Luhansk region is everywhere, because there is no region where there are no displaced persons from Luhansk region. More than 300,000 people left for evacuation during the war," said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhii Gaidai.

There are also immigrants from Luhansk region in the university dormitory of Kyiv.

And although the Lysychan city military administration is located here, no one is refused help.

Since June, Lyubov Mykhailovna from Lysychansk has been forced to travel around the country - she managed to visit Kramatorsk, Dnipro, and was treated for three months in Ternopil Oblast.

Now - in Kyiv.

As the administration promises, you can stay there until victory.

"My God, you see, I got in. I've never been there. Just not the way I wanted to, the way I had to get in," said displaced person Lyubov Verveen.

A little more than a hundred of the 370 places in the student dormitory are occupied.

20 of them are children.

A separate room was set up for them, where everyone has already found their favorite toy.

Little Sofiyka celebrated her first birthday here.

Her grandmother remembers how they left their native home and gathered in a matter of minutes.

"The military came, gave them 20 minutes to gather. And that's when they could take the children's things, and they left," said resettled Oksana Datsenko.

And although the tenants say that they are welcomed here like family, despite everything, they dream of returning home.

Although most of them don't even know whether their homes survived the onslaught of the "Russian Peace".

Read also:

• More than 14.5 million Ukrainians have gone abroad since the beginning of the full-scale Russian offensive

• "People don't leave": Klitschko talked about the number of Kyivites and immigrants in the city

• In Poland, almost 90,000 UAH were stolen from a Ukrainian woman with two children and their passports were burned

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