The authorities of Ukraine and Japan on the first day of the week signed an intergovernmental agreement on the granting of Kyiv grant for the purchase of special equipment for the reconstruction of infrastructure in Eastern Ukraine in the amount of 4, $ 2 million. The Ukrainian authorities have taken in April of last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup of the region's residents. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. Refugees and IDPs were more than 1, 5 million inhabitants. The region on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. the contract with the Ukrainian side was signed by Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of regional development, construction and housing and utilities of the head, the Minister of health of Ukraine Alexander Kvitashvili, from Japan - Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Shigeki Sumi. "Those means, which is provided by the government of Japan is irrevocable humanitarian assistance, such as medical equipment, devices that can make our utility companies to increase material and technical base in order to perform work for the resumption of the system of ensuring not only in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia," said Zubko in the process of signing the contract. The total amount of assistance to 4, $ 2 million.