KIEV, March 2 – The number of internally displaced persons has exceeded 1 million in Ukraine, says a new UN report released on Monday.

The situation in the regions where intense fighting was on is deemed critical, chief of the UN human rights mission in Ukraine Armen Harutyunyan said at a press briefing in Kiev on Monday. People who refused to leave their homes in the zones of fighting are in need of food and medicine, he said.