Neal Walker, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Ukraine, has said Ukraine is home to the ninth largest number of internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) and KfW Development Bank, on behalf of the German Government on October 3 signed an agreement in Kyiv to implement a two-year project that will support some 2,000 conflict-affected Ukrainians develop new or improve existing income opportunities, IOM press service reports.
Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli says Ukraine needs to fulfill a number of conditions to receive the third tranche of macro-financial assistance totaling EUR 600 million, including lifting the ban on timber exports, according to the official's interview with the Segodnya newspaper.
Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 586,000 retired and elderly people residing in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine have lost access to their pensions as a result of verification procedures introduced by the Government of Ukraine, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko enacted the law on amending Article 3 of the law "On Freedom of Movement and Free Choice of the Place of Residence in Ukraine," with regard to internally displaced persons (IDPs), the presidential press service told an UNIAN correspondent.