By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS – UN aid coordination office In Ukraine on Thursday said that it ontinues to provide aid and support to communities in Ukraine impacted by Russia’s full-scale invasion.
In October and November over 2,180 civilian deaths and injuries, while nearly 40,000 people have been uprooted by fighting in frontline areas in Donetsk and Kharkiv, OCHA stated.
UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has highlighted an increase in civilian casualties from aerial glide bombs in densely-populated urban centres, including in Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia.
The glide bombs in Zaporizhzhia “killed at least 9 civilians and injured 42, caused severe damage to an oncology centre where cancer patients were undergoing chemotherapy”, the mission said.
It noted that the Odessa region in southern Ukraine has seen increased Russian strikes too since October that have impacted port workers and ships’ crews.
In the Kherson area, drone attacks have killed and injured civilians “on a near-daily basis, accounting for nearly half of the civilian casualties” there last month.
UN and aid partners delivered 13 tonnes of hygiene, medical and other supplies for people in front-line villages in the Donetsk region.
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