Highlights for the week of August 19 – August 25

Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk paid a working visit (opens in a new tab)to the Kirovohrad region.

In Kropyvnytskyi, the Vice Prime Minister took part in an offsite meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine (opens in a new tab), chaired by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. She also visited (opens in a new tab)the Krop:hub Kropyvnytskyi veterans’ space and held an expanded meeting of the IDP Council (opens in a new tab) at the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration.

Employees of the culture and information sector will be able to join (opens in a new tab) the personnel reserve for work in the de-occupied territories (DOT) – the Government’s decision. The draft law was developed pursuant to the order of Iryna Vereshchuk following the meetings of the Coordination Center for the Temporarily Occupied Territories chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister.

An analysis of the implementation of the State Policy Strategy on Internal Displacement for the period up to 2025 was presented (opens in a new tab) in Kyiv.

Children with their parents or other legal representatives are being forcibly evacuated (opens in a new tab) from certain areas of Donetsk region. This decision was agreed at a meeting of the Coordination Headquarters for the mandatory evacuation of the population under martial law chaired by Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

The Ministry of Reintegration has allocated (opens in a new tab)almost UAH 22 million to regional budgets for compensation for IDPs.

The Ministry of Reintegration and the UNHCR signed a Memorandum (opens in a new tab) of Support for Frontline Communities during the Winter Period. The program budget (opens in a new tab)is USD 30 million.