Rapports

Varvara Zhluktenko Ukraine - It is late when Natalia and her three children enter the arrival hall of Kyiv Boryspil airport, exhausted after their long journey from Damascus, but safe. Natalia is one of 54 stranded Ukrainian women…

DREF operation n° MDRUA006 GLIDE n° CW-2012-000006-UKR 30 June 2012 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure…

This report covers the period 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011. Programmes summary In the reporting period the response to the Revised Plan 2011 for Ukraine has been limited. There was only one contribution from UK’s Department for International Development (DfID),…

This report covers the period 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011. Programme(s) summary In the reporting period, CHARP provided general medical, social and psychological assistance in the seven regions of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The main…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Early prospects for 2012 winter cereal crops uncertain Cereal production recovered significantly in 2011 Cereal exports are expected to increase considerably in 2011/12 marketing year (July/June) Cereal prices rose in February Uncertain prospects for the 2012 winter cereal…

By Joe Lowry in Chernigiv, northern Ukraine Northern Ukraine has recorded some of the lowest temperatures in the current cold snap affecting half of Europe which has killed hundreds of people, the majority of them homeless persons.…

By Giovanni Zambello The plight of thousands of people continues in Europe where forecasters say that icy conditions are unlikely to improve before the end of this week. In the last 11 days, several Red Cross societies…

After unusually mild weather in December 2011 and early January 2012 almost all over Europe, the weather situation changed abruptly in the middle of January. An incursion of cold polar air, coming from northern Russia at…

Summary In the last days, an extreme cold wave has gripped countries in Central and Eastern Europe with wind, heavy snow and Siberia‐style temperatures, in some areas as low as ‐30 C, which have so far claimed…

CHF 94,643 has been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the National Society in delivering immediate assistance most needed people affected by the extreme cold wave in Ukraine. The action is…