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Dnipropetrovsk -  Director-General of the Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) Claus Sorensen, after studying the situation of displaced persons from Donbas in Dnipropetrovsk region, has said that the European Union will increase humanitarian aid to Ukraine by 15 million euros.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that Sorensen announced this at a meeting with Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration on Jan. 27.

Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Hennadiy Zubko told reporters that the decision to increase humanitarian aid by another EUR 15 million was made by the EU delegation after visiting the Dopomoha Dnipra center for temporarily displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk.

Zubko said that EU representatives talked to people who live in the center and saw at first hand that Ukraine needs serious humanitarian aid.

He said that on Tuesday three planes with humanitarian aid to Ukraine from eight EU countries will arrive in Dnipropetrovsk.

“Today humanitarian aid worth 1 million euros arrived. Warm clothes, food, clothes, generators and other articles of prime necessity are in the planes,” Zubko said.

He said that Ukraine has around 700,000 temporarily displaced persons, in particular, 120,000 in Kharkiv region, 84,000 in Dnipropetrovsk region and 65,000 in Zaporizhia region.

As reported, it was previously planned that EU aid for Ukraine will total 7.5 million euros.