Destructions in Donbas: scale, attempts at reconstruction and perspectives for redress for victims 

Destructions in Donbas: scale, attempts at reconstruction and perspectives for redress for victims
Content type:
Report
Publication date:
2016
Author / authors:
Yurii Aseev, Yana Smelianska

Destructions in Donbas: scale, attempts at reconstruction and perspectives for redress for victims

The occupied territories constitute approximately one third of the entire territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.

Within the administrative borders of Luhansk Oblast, illegal armed groups keep control over the territory with the total area of 8,325 sq.km. According to preliminary data, the following number of people still reside in the occupied territories: in the Donetsk Oblast – from 1,600 thousand to 2,000 thousand people; in the Luhansk Oblast – from 900 thousand to 1,100 thousand people.