Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 14th Feb. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesday reported that attacks on energy facilitates continued from Russian airstrikes.
OCHA has said that in the Dnipro region after two days of strikes on energy facilities, local authorities reported another attack overnight on a thermal plant.
OCHA said in a humanitarian update that the strikes prompted the evacuation of a hospital and the closure of schools in the impacted areas, due to low temperatures.
Damage to energy facilities were reported in Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson and Sumy regions.
“On the frontline, our humanitarian partners continue to support communities whose access to critical services has been severely hampered by active hostilities,” OCHA said.
It added that iIn the town of Siversk, Donetsk region, aid organizations supported the installation of a filtering station to provide clean water to people who had been without access to gas, water and electricity due to the destruction of the critical infrastructure.
The second anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion approaches, concerns are growing over a sharp increase in fighting, with devastating impact on civilians, OCHA said.
Miroslav Jenča, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council on Monday that We remain concerned about the escalatory trajectory of this war with intensifying attacks on civilians, and acts that could further diminish the prospects for a just and lasting solution”.
