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Study: More than seven million displaced people within Ukraine
According to a study by international agencies, more than seven million people were displaced within Ukraine by August.
Most of them are women, with almost a third having been displaced more than once, according to a joint report by the EU asylum agency, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Friday.
At the same time, more than six million of those people displaced in or from Ukraine had decided to return to their homes by August.
According to the UN refugee agency, a total of 14.3 million people have fled Ukraine so far.
Three quarters of them went to the four neighbouring EU countries of Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Ahead of an expected battle in Kherson, Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, said on Telegram late on Thursday (Oct 27): "The work to organise residents leaving the left side of the Dnipro (river) to safe regions of Russia is completed."
Moscow's occupational authorities in the southern Ukrainian region have urged residents to cross to the right bank of the Dnipro River as Ukrainian forces make gains in the south.
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Kyiv compares this to Soviet-like "deportations" of its people.
Moscow's forces have vowed to turn Kherson into a "fortress" and not surrender the city, which they took over early in their offensive in March.
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