Informes

Highlights Fighting in eastern Ukraine has displaced nearly 969,000 people, including nearly 460,400 individuals to other areas in Ukraine. Humanitarian agencies are scaling up winterization assistance, including distribution of cold weather shelter materials and emergency relief commodities. To date,…

Appeal history An appeal of CHF 1,375,100 had been launched on 12 May 2014 with the start-up funding of CHF 317,790 allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to enable the Ukrainian Red Cross Society…

Highlights Violence continues to increase on a daily base in Eastern Ukraine. The two-month-old ceasefire is under severe threat with each side accusing the other of having violated the terms of the peace plan. Two children were killed…

On November 10, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the UN Refugee Agency. The document signed Serhiy Bochkovsky, Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) and…

Highlights • The President did not sign the new IDP law into force within the required 15-day time period. As a result, the law is essentially ‘adopted by default’, but will only enter into force after Presidential…

Key messages Humanitarian needs in the country are increasing due to the ongoing conflict and the upcoming winter. The affected populations, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, are in urgent need of shelter, food, access to…

On 28 October, UNHCR Regional Representative for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Oldrich Andrysek during his visit to Odesa conducted meetings with representatives of 12 local NGOs to discuss the current problems regarding IDPs living in Odesa…

Highlights • The Ukrainian parliamentary elections held on 26 October took place without incident. A coalition government is under negotiation. • Under the aegis of the UN Resident Coordinator, OCHA facilitated a 1.5-day Strategic Response Plan Workshop in…

Highlights · The Ukrainian Parliament adopted the long-awaited law ensuring the rights and freedoms of IDPs on 20 October 2014. The law is expected to help resolve several key outstanding issues that cannot be addressed within the…

Highlights State Emergency Service (SES) reports the total number of internally displaced persons at 417,246 as of 17 October. At least one third of them are children. Ministry of Education (MoES) estimates that around 60% of schools in…