KIEV, July 5 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will contribute at least 30 million U.S. dollars this year to help arrange Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, a senior UNHCR official said here on Wednesday.
"Our budget for this year is 30 million dollars, but this sum is not enough to implement all the planned projects. By the end of the year, we hope to find more funds to complete those projects," Pablo Mateu, the UNHCR representative in Ukraine, told reporters.
Currently, problems with accommodation and unemployment remain the most pressing issues for those who were displaced by the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Mateu said.
The armed confrontation between government troops and pro-independence insurgents in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions since 2014 has uprooted more than two million Ukrainians from their home.
About 1.6 million of them were registered as IDP in Ukraine, while the rest applied for refugee status or temporary asylum in the neighboring countries.
