ABSTRACT
Since March 2014, a violent armed conflict has been taking place in Donetsk and Luhansk, densely populated regions in eastern Ukraine. At the time of writing of this chapter, despite all diplomatic peace efforts, the situation remains very tense and could be characterised as catastrophic in many ways. As of mid-2016, more than 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had to relocate to the safer regions of Ukraine had been registered by Ukrainian authorities (MSPU, 2016).
