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, footnotes = The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories ( uk, Міністерство з питань реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій України) is a government ministry in

officially established on 20 April 2016The Cabinet decided to create the Ministry of temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons

(20 April 2016) to manage

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parts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions affected by Russian military intervention of 2014. The

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in August 2019 merged the

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into the ministry. But its succeeding

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reversed this merger in March 2020.

History

Vadym Chernysh was on 14 April 2016 New Cabinet formed in Ukraine

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(14 April 2016)Week’s balance: PM Groysman, Rada’s sabotage, and disappointing IMF forecast

(18 April 2016) appointed as the first Minister of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs in the Groysman government. On 20 April 2016 his ministry was created by merging the State Agency for restoration of Donbas (formerly part of Ministry of Regional Development) and the State Service for

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n annexed

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and

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

(formerly under direct administration of the Cabinet of Ukraine). Chernysh is the former head of the State Agency for restoration of Donbas. The ministry tries to "search for solutions and reintegration strategies" for Ukraine to regain control

and parts of the historical region Donbas. Ukraine lost control over

, which was unilaterally annexed by Russia in March 2014.EU & Ukraine 17 April 2014 FACT SHEET
,

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(17 April 2014) In the Donbas region of

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, pro-Russian protests escalated into an armed separatist insurgency early in April 2014, when masked gunmen took control of several of the region's government buildings and towns. This led to the creation of the

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and

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. Violence between the

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and the forces of the two breakaway republics escalated into an

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known as the

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. The war in Donbas led to 1.6 million people becoming

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, according to the registry of the Ukrainian government. The

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reported in March 2016 that 800,000 to 1 million of them lived within Ukrainian government controlled Ukraine.Over 3 mln people live in conflict zone in Ukraine's east – UN report

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(3 March 2016) The

(on 29 August 2019) merged the

into the ministry degrading the first to an agency as it previously existed.New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ)

(29 August 2019) On 23 January 2020 then Minister Oksana Koliada stated that the Ministry would likely be split up again into a separate Ministry for Veterans Affairs with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs to be renamed "Ministry of Reintegration".Two ministries will be in charge of Donbas: they will divide the Ministry of Veterans

(23 January 2020) Indeed, on 4 March 2020 the new

undid the merge of the two ministries.

List of ministers

Heads of predecessor government agencies of the ministry

State Agency for restoration of Donbas

State Service on issues of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol city

List of ministers of the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories nd IDPs/h2>

Notes

References

External links

November 2016 interview with minister Vadym Chernysh
by

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