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August 25, 2022
Guterres underlines need for peace as Ukraine marks six months of ‘senseless war’
KYIV — UN agencies and entities have underlined their continued support to Ukraine, as Tuesday marked six months since the start of the war devastating the country.Matilda Bogner, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, called for greater efforts to spare and protect civilians.The Mission has been in the country since 2014, when it began work documenting violations in the east stemming from the fighting between Government forces and pro-Russian separatists.Bogner said the resulting escalation of the eight-year long armed conflict has brought more death, suffering, damage, and destruction.“Every day, we speak with people affected by the war, and hear about and document violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including war crimes,” she...
August 25, 2022
UN agencies deliver food, healthcare and other aid amid Ukraine fighting
August 24, 2022
Controversy in France over 'shocking' go-kart event in prison grounds
August 24, 2022
UN steps up post-COVID support in Africa; battles cholera in Malawi
August 24, 2022
Finland PM Marin says sorry for guests' topless photo at government residence
August 24, 2022
Kyiv displays captured tanks on Independence Day as Ukrainians cast a wary eye on Russia
August 24, 2022
Urgent agreement needed to end fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Six months after the Russian invasion, Ukraine is the scene of the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War Two. Almost a third of those displaced by the conflict come from the region around the country’s second largest city of Kharkiv, in the east. Helping those in need is dangerous work.Before dawn on 24 February, Kharkiv took a fierce hit. Within 24 hours, Russian troops had reached the northern suburbs, just 30 kilometers from the Ukraine-Russia border. Despite outnumbering the Ukrainian forces, the invading army was unable to enter the city.“I am from Kharkiv, from the largest residential area in Ukraine – Saltivka, where about 400,000 people lived before the war,” says 21-year-old Tania, who has found a temporary home in Ivano-Frankivsk...
August 24, 2022
Braving mines and missiles to bring aid to Ukraine’s displaced population
August 24, 2022
Ukraine POW trials in Mariupol could be a war crime: OHCHR
August 24, 2022
Passengers stuck for hours inside Eurotunnel