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Social Policy Ministry: More than 1.58 mln IDPs registered in Ukraine

Published June 19, 2017 at 8:42 pm

A young local resident of the flashpoint eastern city of Avdiyivka that sits just north of the pro-Russian rebels' de facto capital of Donetsk, walks past a house damaged during recent shelling on Feb. 2.

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The Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine had registered 1.587 million internally displaced persons or 1.277 million families from the temporarily occupied Crimea and Donbas as of June 19, 2017.

Some Hr 1.406 billion was spent on social assistance of the IDPs at the moment, the ministry’s press service Policy reported on Monday with reference to the regional social protection departments.