Reports

Geneva / Kiev / Moscow (ICRC) - The ICRC is extremely concerned about the plight of people in need of assistance and protection as a result of conflict in eastern Ukraine. "It is urgent that aid reaches…

This update is provided for media and general public. Detention of those considered supporters of the “LPR” in the Luhansk region continues. People continue to flee Luhansk city. The clearance of the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv…

People hunt for increasingly scarce food in the shops, and dive into Soviet-era bomb shelters when the artillery opens up. Until very recently, war still seemed far away for residents of Donetsk. Yes, there was sporadic gunfire…

UNCHR Regional Representative for Belarus Moldova and Ukraine Oldrich Andrysek and Head of Ukraine’ State Emergency Service Sergiy Bochkovskiy concluded an agreement of cooperation in delivering relief items to internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Thanks to the…

The SMM observed that the Donetsk railway station was open. In Shakhtarsk running water is available for only two hours per day, and gas and electricity has been unavailable since 27 July. The SMM in Donetsk city…

SC/11516 Security Council 7329th Meeting (AM) Intense fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk was resulting in mounting casualties and serious infrastructure damage, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council this morning. “The price being paid by all Ukrainians as…

BERN, 8 August 2014 - OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, welcomed today’s announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that it would step up activities for the affected population in…

Highlights • Fighting in eastern Ukraine killed at least 1,543 and wounded 4,396 since midApril up to 7 August1 , while an estimated 6,200 persons fled their homes last week. • A sharp rise in displaced from Donetsk…

Geneva/ Kiev/Moscow (ICRC) – Armed clashes in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine have forced thousands of families to flee their homes. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands are now displaced both in the country and…

Internally displaced persons from Luhansk continued to inform the SMM about troubling humanitarian conditions in the city. The SMM visited a Ukrainian Border Guard encampment, one kilometre from the Russian border, and saw evidence that it…