In Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, more than 150,000 residents are homeless after months of Russian attacks, according to local authorities. “Many of them left the city, traveled to western Ukraine or other regions or abroad,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov said, according to the Unian agency. But many stayed. “Because Kharkiv was considered the student capital of Ukraine before the war, we make the dormitories available to people who have nowhere to live and provide them with everything they need.”
At the beginning of October, the UN Emergency Relief Office (OCHA) in Geneva announced that around 140,000 people were estimated to be dependent on humanitarian aid in the areas around Kharkiv recaptured from Ukraine. Most people have little access to food, water, gas, electricity and medical care.