The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donators to allocate additional money to resolve humanitarian issues in eastern Ukraine after a year of intense fighting.

"The fragile ceasefire, agreed in February, has enabled ICRC teams to more clearly assess the situation in front-line areas. The needs of displaced people, the wounded, the detained and those trying to rebuild their lives, are serious. The ICRC is requesting donors to provide an extra 32 million Swiss francs ($34 million)," reads an ICRC press release issued on Tuesday.

According to the organization, the money will be spent on increasing assistance to those left homeless by the conflict, supporting essential health services, and helping to identify the dead.

"It would also be used to warn of the dangers of unexploded ordnances and to help emergency services deal these devices," reads the statement.

The ICC said that the additional funds would increase the 2015 budget for Ukraine and the Moscow regional delegation to over 80 million SFr ($84.5 million), making the ICRC response to the crisis one of its top five global operations.

The statement refers to the UN, saying that at least 6,000 people have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine and half the population of the region, around two million people, has been displaced.

The ICRC also characterized the humanitarian situation in Donbas: "during the fighting, civilians close to the front line were subjected to heavy rocket fire and artillery shelling. Hospitals, schools, water and electricity systems and other essential services were badly damaged. The situation has been made worse by the relative poverty in the region, a lack of resources in opposition-held areas and economic inactivity. People have also had difficulty accessing their pensions and savings due to new travel procedures. With no work and no income, entire families are surviving on aid distributed by the ICRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement partners."

In 2015, the ICRC delivered more than 3,000 tonnes of aid to militant controlled areas in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. More than 156,000 people received food assistance and more than 167,000 people received other basic items, on both sides of the front line.

In the south of Russia and in Crimea, the ICRC and local branches of the Red Cross have distributed 1,200 tonnes of aid to people who fled from hostilities in Ukraine.

According to the press release, the ICRC's work on behalf of people deprived of their freedom is a core part of its mandate. Since September 2014, the ICRC has been visiting government-run detention facilities. In 2015, the ICRC provided food and hygiene products to around 16,000 detainees held in militant occupied areas. The ICRC is pursuing discussions with the Ukrainian authorities and the militants to obtain formal agreements to visit detainees, and has offered to facilitate the simultaneous release of people held by the two sides.