Over 1.64 million IDPs registered in Ukraine

As of January 30, 2017, over 1 million 641 thousand Ukrainian citizens, who had been forced to move from Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, were registered.

This was reported by the Government portal, citing the press service of the Social Policy Ministry of Ukraine.

"1.641,895 internally displaced persons or 1.322,216 families from Donbas and Crimea were registered by the social protection departments of regional and Kyiv city state administrations," the press service informed.

As reported, 1.140,711 families applied for financial assistance, and 1.053,030 of them were assigned such benefits.

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