Russian military has relocated a Ukrainian family twice in the last eight years

One Ukrainian family had an all-too-familiar experience when hundreds of evacuees arrived overnight at a processing center for internally displaced individuals in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih.

A Ukrainian family was forced to abandon their house for the second time in eight years, they told CNN.

They went north to Kherson after losing their home in Crimea after Russia conquered and annexed the area in 2014.

When Russia annexed Kherson in the first week of March, the family was once again compelled to move north, this time to Kryvyi Rih.

They were among the 500 evacuees that arrived overnight at the city’s Narodnyi Dim processing center.

According to the center’s acting director Natalya Patrusheva, the center has been opened and serving evacuees since the beginning of the war.

It has over 50,000 individuals registering and travelling through.

Across two storeys, immaculate racks of apparel store everything from little baby goods to adult stuff. Food and other basic necessities were stacked against the walls, according to the CNN team.

Volunteers aid evacuees once they have been processed. Some evacuees travel by train to Lviv, Ukraine’s far west, while others travel by bus to locations like Odesa, Vinnytsia, and Khmelnytskyi.