Mykolaiv region sheltered about 70,000 refugees from Kherson region

Mykolaiv region received about 70,000 immigrants from Kherson region. Photo by Vitalii Kim: Office of the President

As of December 2024, about 100,000 internally displaced persons live in Mykolaiv region. Most of them are residents of the Kherson region.

Vitalii Kim, the head of Mykolaiv RMA, told about this on Novyny.live.

He noted that most of the people are waiting for the opportunity to return home, so they settle mainly with relatives or rent housing.

«We currently have about 100,000 displaced people in the Mykolaiv region. They are mainly from the Kherson region. Everyone is looking forward to their return home. Therefore, most of them do not live in the places that we have for them, but with relatives or rent housing on a commercial basis.»

Vitalii Kim specified that about 70,000 residents from Kherson Oblast have arrived in the region today.

How did the population level change in Mykolaiv?

As you know, since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, about 45% of the townspeople have left Mykolaiv. The statistics began to change positively only after the deoccupation of the right bank of the Kherson region. And already in September 2023, about 350-360 thousand people lived in Mykolaiv. This was the same indicator compared to May of the same year. At the same time, 56,000 of that number are internally displaced persons.

At the same time, in May, the head of the Mykolaiv region Vitalii Kim reported that about 80% of the pre-war population lives in the Mykolaiv region, but there are far fewer jobs.

Currently, more than 167,000 internally displaced persons are registered in the Mykolaiv region, of which more than 48,000 live directly in Mykolaiv.

Despite the positive dynamics in terms of the population, Mykolaiv remains among the cities with the lowest indicators of income and budget expenditures per inhabitant in Ukraine. In particular, budget revenues per city resident amount to only 8.8 thousand hryvnias, and expenses — 7.5 thousand hryvnias.