EU increases humanitarian assistance for Ukrainian conflict-affected population

EU News 344/2014

Brussels, 12 August 2014
IP/14/924

The European Commission is giving additional funding of €2.5 million to assist the most vulnerable people affected by the continuing fighting in Eastern Ukraine. This humanitarian aid is geared towards helping to register and relocate internally displaced people (IDPs), provide shelter, food, water, healthcare, psycho-social assistance and protection in preparation for the coming winter.

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The Commission's humanitarian funding will address the basic needs of the population in the areas directly affected by the conflict, the internally displaced and refugees who have fled the conflict areas, and the returnees who are going back home to recovered areas by the Ukrainian military. This category includes some 3.9 million people.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-924_en.htm?locale=en

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