Hundreds of thousands of people living in eastern Ukraine have been forced to flee from fighting between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military, but many hope to one day return to their old lives.
From Der Spiegel:
Some of the displaced applied for asylum in the European Union, fled abroad or moved to Russia. But a huge number of them sought shelter elsewhere in Ukraine, making the country's domestic refugee crisis one of the largest seen in Europe since the Yugoslav wars from 1991 to 2001. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the number of internally displaced people in Ukraine places the country in the top 10 worldwide.
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