Over 1.51 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) had been registered in Ukraine as of August 6, 2018, Ukraine's Ministry of Social Policy has reported.

"As of August 6, 2018, some 1,516,237 displaced persons from the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea had been registered, according to local administrations' social security departments," the ministry's press service said on Monday.

At the same time, there is no information on the payment of benefits for their housing and utilities.

As reported, there had been 1.4 million IDPs registered in Ukraine as of February 12. Their number was 1.5 million as of May 2 and 1.51 million as of June 18.