DNIPROPETROVSK, Jan. 27 – Director-General of the Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) Claus Sorensen, after studying the situation of displaced persons from Donbas, said that the European Union will increase humanitarian aid to Ukraine by EUR 15 million.

Sorensen announced this at a meeting with Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration on Tuesday.

Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Hennadiy Zubko told reporters that the decision to increase humanitarian aid by another EUR 15 million was made by the EU delegation after visiting the Dopomoha Dnipra center for temporarily displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk.