The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) will raise over $64 million in 2016 for humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons and people who stay in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone, said Hennadiy Zubko, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development, Construction, Housing, and Utilities Economy Minister.

The State Agency for Donbas Restoration will coordinate the use of government grants and loans in projects assisting territories, which have been harmed by the Russian aggression in the east of Ukraine, Zubko said after a meeting with Alain Aeschlimann, head of the ICRC's mission to Ukraine.

In the words of Aeschlimann, 13,000 internally displaced persons will be given a monthly allowance of UAH 500 in 2016. In the first quarter of the year, the ICRC will provide water cleaning agents to the Popasna water services and will supply maintenance vehicles.

The Ukrainian government has approved a comprehensive state program for the support, social adaptation and re-integration of Ukrainian citizens, who temporarily moved from the occupied Ukrainian territory and the ATO zone to other regions of Ukraine, for the period until 2017, Zubko said.

Aeschlimann expressed the readiness to coordinate the ICRC activity in accordance with the government program.

The ICRC mission resumed its activity in Kyiv in April 2014 in response to Russian occupation of Crimea and aggression in Ukrainian eastern regions.