Ukrainians still run on line, because the war extends in the fourth year

“Only six months only in the last six months are evacuated from counted areas in the east and north,” said Filippo Grands, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the Three Year Anniversary of the War on Monday 24. February.

Mr. Grandi added that since the beginning of the war about 10.6 million people were forced from their homes. While most fled during the early stages of Russian invasion, he said, moving and suffering continues.

Drons quarreled over the city “

Many of those who are displaced in the east and north of the country arrive in transit centers before they helped find a temporary shelter on replicated public buildings known as collective sites.

Serhii Zelenyi was recently evacuated by the bus to the transit center in the eastern city of Pavlohd, after the daily bombing of the Pokrovska, his homemade, at the Front Donetsk region, 130 kilometers from the border with Russia.

“It was very difficult in covering. The drones broke across the city to each day, from morning until late in the evening,” says Zelenyi. “Sometimes there was a two-hour break, then the bombing began. It was impossible.”

Handyman and a small farmer were among the last of his neighbors, finally deciding that constant danger, lack of food, water and electricity, and the need to stay indoors almost all day was too much.

Upon arrival in Pavlohrad, Mr. Zelenyi received his clothes and financial assistance from the UN refugee agency, UNHCRThrough its local partner organizations, and now it is wondering what will do next. “I lost everything,” he said, “I have to start again from zero.”

Sure space to cry

Mr. Zeleny’s story is not unusual, says Alyon Sinaeva, a psychologist with Prelim, the UNHCR partner in Pavlohrad. Those coming from the Frontline regions are “in acute stress, because they come from cities where active struggles take place.”

The center provides a safe place for traumatized civilians, while spring and other UNHCR partners provide arrival evacuation with clothing, financial assistance to the purchase of essential, hygiene sets, legal aids and psychosocial support.

“They can relax and cry in this area. These are emotions that have failed to appear so far,” Sinava said. “People are tired. Tired of war. They’re all tired.”

Three years from the full invasion in Russia in Ukraine, and 11 years from the beginning of the war, destruction and displacement remains daily reality and estimated 12.7 million people who still live in Ukraine – need humanitarian aid.