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Chernobyl refugee town welcomes Ukraine's conflict displaced
A children’s nursery and part of a hospital were converted into apartments as the town houses 1,265 war-displaced residents, officials said.
- Slavutych is repurposing abandoned Chernobyl-era infrastructure into housing for Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion, having renovated a nursery and hospital wing to accommodate new arrivals.
- Originally built in 1986 following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the town symbolized the Soviet Union's ideal of 'friendship of the peoples,' though its population dwindled to about 20,000 after the plant's closure.
- Kateryna Romanenko, who fled Bakhmut in 2023, called her Slavutych home her "most positive" experience of the past four years, while Olga arrived in 2024 after leaving Enegodar with her elderly mother.
- According to Kyiv regional administration head Mykola Kalachnyk, 1,265 displaced people have moved to the northern town, a fraction of the 3.7 million people the United Nations says the Russian invasion has displaced.
- Despite the refuge, residents like Olena Tolstova pine for their original homes, illustrating trauma described by UNHCR representative Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth, as every family in Ukraine has been "touched" by the war's displacement.
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'Friendship of the peoples': Chernobyl refugee town welcomes Ukraine's conflict displaced
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