An estimated 3.9 million people remained internally displaced in Ukraine as of June 2026.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports in its press note has stated that the number of internally displaced people has stayed at around 12 per cent of the population since 2023 and more families are struggling to meet their basic needs.
Nearly seven in ten internally displaced people have now been away from home for more than two years while about 132,000 people were forced to leave their homes between January and June this year alone.
The report based on IOM’s latest survey of the Ukrainian population carried out between 23 April and 30 June 2026 found that 87 per cent of displaced households have had to take at least one difficult step to cope. The most common include using up savings (75%), cutting back on utilities (59%) and reducing health spending (53%). One in five households also reported moving to lower-quality housing, while 17 per cent have fallen behind on rent.
The report is being prepared with support from the Government of Canada, the European Union, Sweden, and the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund indicating 82 per cent of internally displaced people say they only want to return home once the fighting stops.
At the same time, more people are considering settling permanently where they now live, which has increased from 51 per cent in March to 58 per cent in June 2026.
Around 2.15 million individuals that accounts 56 per cent of all those displaced in Ukraine who had faced longer displacement, greater hardship, and fewer options for going home, originally came from areas that were fully or partly occupied at the time of the survey.
