Russo-Ukrainian War in Donbas

What is affected

	Housing Social/public
	Housing private
	Land Social/public
	Land Private

Type of violation

Forced eviction
Dispossession/confiscation

Date

01 February 2014

Region

E [ Europe ]

Country

Ukraine

Location

Donbas

Affected persons

	Total 1460000
	Men 0
	Women 0
	Children 0
	IDPs

Proposed solution

Details

Development

Forced eviction

Costs

Duty holder(s) /responsible party(ies)

State

Brief narrative

U.S. Department of State, “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ukraine,” 2020, https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ukraine/. Cumulative: 1.46 million persons are registered as displaced in the Ukraine, with over half (51%) residing in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (Donbas):

82% displaced more than three years, considered protracted 35% only have enough money for food; 10 per cent don’t have enough money for food Damage to water pipelines, homes and social institutions limits access to adequate heating, hygiene facilities, and clean drinking water (IOM, “Ukraine Crisis Response Plan 2021–2023,” 27 January 2021, p. 3, https://www.crisisresponse.iom.int/sites/default/files/appeal/pdf/2021_Ukraine_Crisis_Response_Plan_2021__2023.pdf. IDPs were 734,000 at the end of 2020, the majority of whom had been displaced during 2014 and 2015 (IDMC, “Ukraine,” Country Information, https://www.internal-displacement.org/countries/ukraine). In 2020, “passportization” became widespread: Russia issued nearly 200,000 Russian passports to Ukrainians in Donetsk and Luhansk (Fabian Burkhardt, “Russia’s “Passportisation” of the Donbas: The Mass Naturalisation of Ukrainians Is More Than a Foreign Policy Tool,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP Comment 2020/C 41 (3 August 2020), https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2020C41/). Also in 2020, the Ukrainian government adopted a policy that links pension eligibility with displaced persons’ status, leading to discrimination and hardship for elderly living in nongovernment-controlled areas (Human Rights Watch, “Ukraine: Events of 2020,” 2021, https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/ukraine). “Roughly 600,000 people live in unsafe settlements on both sides of the front lines where they are exposed daily to shelling, landmines, and tight restrictions on freedom of movement and basic services,” International Crisis Group, “Nobody Wants Us”: The Alienated Civilians of Eastern Ukraine,” Report No. 252, 1 October 2018,, https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine/252-nobody-wants-us-alienated-civilians-eastern-ukraine.

Costs

€ 0

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