“Yet again, another unfathomable attack of the Russian Armed Forces killed and injured civilians, this time at the start of their day at a busy marketplace in Kherson City, south of Ukraine,” Matthias Schmale said in a statement. At least five people were killed, and others injured, according to media reports. Mr. Schmale said the … Read moreUkraine: Top UN aid official condemns deadly marketplace strike in Kherson
“Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen intensifying attacks affecting civilians and public infrastructure”, WHO Ukraine said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Since the weekend, parts of Ukraine including the eastern city of Kharkiv, the Sumy and Donetsk regions and Kyiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia areas, have suffered deadly strikes. … Read moreUkraine: Top official underscores need to protect civilians amid ‘massive’ attacks
“Like millions of people in Ukraine I spent hours in a shelter this morning because of the ongoing wave of attacks on Ukraine by the Russian Armed Forces,” Matthias Schmale said in a statement issued on Monday. He added that civilians were reportedly killed and injured, while civilian infrastructure sustained heavy damage. Young lives disrupted … Read moreTop UN aid official deplores latest wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine
“There has been a very clear intensification of the war over the past couple of months,” said Denise Brown, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine. “On my last trip to Ukraine two weeks ago, there were 12 sirens during the day and 12 explosions. There’s a constant disruption to daily life in the city … Read moreWar in Ukraine should not be ‘new normal’, warns top humanitarian there
“Russia’s intention to conduct presidential elections from today, 15 March, until 17 March in areas of Ukraine under its control are unacceptable,” said Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said. Under international humanitarian law, the occupying power – in this case, Russia – must uphold the laws of Ukraine in the occupied territories, she … Read moreTop UN official slams Russia’s illegal elections in occupied Ukraine
Mr. Christodoulides issued renewed condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged member states to live up to the commitments outlined in the UN Charter. “The horrors of the second world war, which began in Europe and consumed the world, brought nations together. We, assembled here today, must live up to the obligations prescribed in … Read moreCyprus President to UN Assembly: ‘Do we have the resolve to make peace our top priority?’
Denise Brown issued a statement deploring this “new wave of massive Russian attacks”, and appealed for the violence to end. “Grain storage facilities, vital for the Ukrainian farmers and global food security, have been hit in the Danube area,” she said. “A school in the Sumy region was damaged, and teachers were killed and injured.” International media … Read moreTop UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’
Denise Brown issued a statement deploring the “indiscriminate” attacks impacting civilians and civilian infrastructure. She stressed that people in the south, including in the Kherson and Odesa regions, had endured “a particularly harsh weekend” after reports that strikes left many civilians, including children, killed and injured. An entire family, including an infant, were among the … Read moreTop UN aid official condemns escalating attacks in Ukraine
Denise Brown, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, offered reassurance to Dmytro Kuleba that UN agencies and other humanitarian partners have been delivering water, food and cash to those displaced or suffering the impact of the dam breach, and collapse of the crucial hydroelectric plant in the southeast region near the city of Kherson. Expanding support “Plans are now … Read moreDam disaster: UN ‘committed to reaching all Ukrainians in need’, says top aid official
Fulgence Kayishema is alleged to have orchestrated the killing of approximately 2,000 Tutsi refugees at Nyange Catholic Church during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) said in a statement. He was arrested in South Africa on Wednesday in a joint operation between the IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor and the … Read moreArrest of top Rwandan genocide fugitive shows ‘justice will be done’