Reports

Geneva / Kiev / Moscow (ICRC) – Staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report intermittent shelling of residential areas in Lugansk. This action endangers the lives of civilians, including humanitarian workers.. "Telephone lines…

The SMM monitored impacts of shelling in Donetsk, visited a border crossing point near Kharkiv, and received accounts about illegal dumping of chemical material near Lviv. The border guard commander in Hoptivka (36km north of Kharkiv) informed…

Good afternoon everyone. I am happy to see how different the situation in Sloviansk is today compared with the beginning of July. We at the United Nations have been extremely concerned at the way the situation in Ukraine…

The Secretary-General follows with deep concern reports that a Russian aid convoy has crossed the border into Ukraine without the permission of the Ukrainian authorities. While recognising the deteriorating humanitarian situation, any unilateral action has the…

BERN, August 23, 2014 – Deploring that the agreement by Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the modalities of delivering the convoy aid was not implemented in good faith, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs…

The armed group calling itself the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) must not carry out 'executions', including a reported threat of killing prisoners facing life sentences, Amnesty International said today. On Friday Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council…

22 August 2014 – Reacting to reports that a Russian aid convoy crossed the Ukrainian border without Kiev’s permission, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all sides to continue to work together to ensure that…

Further allegations of human rights abuses emerge in Donbas The situation remained calm in Kharkiv. The “deputy minister of interior” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) told the SMM that the “DPR” had found a charred body…

HIGHLIGHTS As of 20 August, the number of IDPs is estimated to have reached 190,000. IDPs from eastern Ukraine now make up 92% of the total number of displaced. UNHCR is concerned by the attack on a convoy of…

Highlights Continuing shelling hampers access to effectively assess the humanitarian situation in some parts of Eastern Ukraine. UNHCR reports 155,800 internally displaced people, one third of whom are children. The Ministry of Education reports 290 schools are partially or…