form the temporarily occupied territories and anti-terrorist operation regions informed the Commissioner for Human Rights that as of 22 February 2015, there were 749 262 persons resettled directly from the territory of the anti-terrorist operation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including 135 891 children and 337 395 persons with disabilities and elderly people. According to information from the Regional headquarters in Donetsk region, there were 19 children transferred from Dzerzhynsk center for social and psychological rehabilitation of children (CSPRC) with subsequent placement of 14 children with Slovyansk CSPRC and 5 with Kramatorsk shelter for children. There were 45 children transferred from Artemivsk regional children’s home to Kharkiv children’s home #3 and 3 children – to Kharkiv regional clinical children’s hospital. Following undertaken measures, 54 residents of youth units of Druzhkivka residence facility requested transfer to residence facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Mykolayiv, Ternopil, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy region. Relevant documentation for referrals to residence facilities for the youth unit residents were sent to social protection units in these regions accordingly. Upon receiving referrals, the residents will be transferred to residence facilities of the said regions. Following recommendations of the Commissioner for Human Rights, the bed-capacity system of boarding facilities on the territories controlled by Ukrainian government in Donetsk regions was rearranged, forecast indices for 2015 budget were increased, as well as the work conducted on increasing staff capacity of residence facilities. According to the regional headquarters in Luhansk region, there were 186 care recipients transferred from Popasne neuropsychiatric residence, including 53 person evacuated outside of Luhansk region (24 persons to Kharkiv region, 29 persons to Kirovohrad region), and 133 persons temporarily located within Luhansk region (14 women in cities of Svatove and Kreminna, 77 persons – in Dmytrivka neuropsychiatric residence, and 42 persons in Druzhkivka facility). These include persons who had not agreed to leave the territory, as well as bedridden patients and persons with restricted mobility with medical contraindications for long-distance transfers.] On 16 February 2015, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted a draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2015’” that followed recommendations by the Commissioner for Human Rights from the letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine on 9 February 2015. In particular, it relates to redistribution of funds from Luhansk and Donetsk regional budgets to local budgets and funding for care recipients and staff of evacuated facilities on the territories of their actual transfer destinations. The bill suggests including Article 29 into the Law of Ukraine ‘On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2015’ whereby the Cabinet of Ministers receives powers for distribution and redistribution of educational, medical, and vocational training subventions to ensure servicing citizens who relocated from the temporarily occupied territory and regions of the anti-terrorist operation. In addition, the Ministry of Finance developed and submitted for the government’s review a draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On the Procedure of interbudget transfers for local budgets in localities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the territory of anti-terrorist operation”. 23

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