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A total of 1,522,743 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas and Crimea were registered in Ukraine as of October 29, 2018, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine has said.

“According to the structural units on the social protection of the population of the regional and Kyiv city state administrations, 1,522,743 IDPs from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were registered as of October 29, 2018,” the ministry’s press service said.

As reported, 1.427 million IDPs were registered in Ukraine on February 12, 2018, 1.5 million on May 2, 1.51 million on June 18, 1.516 million on August 6, and 1.519 million IDPs on September 3.