Legal status of citizens who were dispaced within the territory of Ukraine during the war: threats and challenges

Abstract

In the conditions of the war with Russia and as a result of active hostilities in some Ukrainian cities, thousands of Ukrainian citizens automatically became internally displaced persons in their state. According to border guards, more than one and a half million people left for European countries. There are probably no exact statistics on citizens who fled the war to other regions of the country, but it is definitely no less than those who went abroad. Currently, there are no mechanisms for working with such citizens in the state, and this is a certain problem. First of all, it is the lack of accurate and objective data on the number of such persons, their personal data, etc. Secondly, law enforcement agencies cannot clearly identify and verify such persons, which is very important in the conditions of martial law. The security of the host communities depends on such checks, because saboteurs who plan to destabilize the situation can get into them along with real migrants. In addition, such resettled people should receive appropriate guarantees from the state, as they currently need state support