Reports

Cáritas Española aporta 50.000 euros al programa de ayuda humanitaria que Cáritas Ucrania puso en marcha en mayo pasado Cáritas. 27 de agosto de 2014.- Cáritas Española sigue apoyando el trabajo que Cáritas Ucrania lleva a cabo…

“We decided to leave our home because it was dreadful to stay there,” says Maria, a woman who fled Crimea as fighting intensified. “Only three of us came here – two children and I. We have…

In Donetsk the SMM continues to observe the impact of the conflict on the civilian population and infrastructure. A pro-Ukrainian unity rally, near Shevchenko monument in Kharkiv, gathered around 300 young people, men and women, on 24…

LVIV, Ukraine – Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. Many are women with children, like Ketevan, a young woman whose recent displacement from Artemivsk, a city in…

Bern, 25.08.2014 - Tallinn, 25.08.2014: Speech by the President of the Swiss Confederation, Mr Didier Burkhalter - Ambassador Conference in Tallinn - Check against delivery Dear colleagues Ladies and gentlemen It is a pleasure and an honour to participate…

Celebrations for Independence Day were held across the country on 24 August. In Luhansk and Donetsk fighting continues to impact on the civilian population. In Donetsk the SMM observed a group of captive men being paraded…

On 24 August the SMM entered Luhansk city which, due to heavy fighting, it had last visited on 21 July. On its way to the city the SMM stopped in the town of Stanytsia-Luhanska (25 km to…

Highlights At least 2,249 people have been killed (including at least 23 children) and 6,033 wounded (including at least 38 children) in eastern Ukraine as of 19 August (source OHCHR). The advent of the school year on 1…

(Kyiv, 23 August 2014) UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos visited areas of eastern Ukraine to see for herself the impact of the continued fighting on millions of people. Since March this year, around 200,000 people have fled…

KYIV, 24 August 2014 - The SMM on 23 August (at 17:15hrs) saw a residential area in Donetsk (Kalinski district, around 5km north of the city centre) which was severely damaged by artillery. Residents at the…