The situation with payment by the government of Ukraine of pensions and social benefits on uncontrolled territories raises concerns of the UN, said on Wednesday the official representative of the Secretary-General of the organization Stefan Dujarric.

"It continues to be a cause for concern. Citizens, under control of the authorities of the territories, have difficulties in receiving pensions, " he said. According to his statement, " more worrisome is the fact that they do not have sufficient access to food ".

Dujarric said that " the number of displaced persons due to the conflict reached 1, 2 million people, the number of immigrants exceeded 760 thousand ". According to his statement, " the overwhelming majority of them found refuge in the Russian Federation ".

above the heads of the Ministry of Finance of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics said that the duty of the Kiev authorities to the residents of Donbass social benefits since the summer of last year to over 33 billion hryvnia (74, 9 billion).

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