Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Jan. UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi on Friday has warned of dramatic humanitarian suffering throughout Ukraine and worsening conditions as war-affected civilians suffer through the harsh winter.
He ended a week-long visit to the country, he made a strong appeal for greater international humanitarian support.
“The fighting has escalated and the humanitarian situation in the country is dramatic and urgent. Millions have been forced to flee the war and Russian attacks, and they are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance,” he said.
“Under the strong leadership of the Government, the UN and partners especially Ukrainian organizations have been doing all that they can to help, but without much more international support and funding, Ukrainian civilians will continue to suffer.”
UNHCR has been helping those who are displaced and is boosting up assistance to those choosing to return to their areas of origin.
The agency is working with the Government, it launched the Ukraine is Home platform, with important up-to-date information for refugees as well as for facilitating housing repairs and reconstruction.
Top official in Ukraine Denise Brown expressed “outrage” at an attack on a clearly marked humanitarian vehicle in eastern Ukraine.
The vehicle belongs to Ukrainian aid organization, Mission Proliska, was struck in the war-torn city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, as aid workers were distributing vital supplies to civilians.
One aid worker was injured official said.
“I was in Chasiv Yar just a few weeks ago, also delivering aid to civilians in this town completely devastated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” UN Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said in a statement.
“I know first-hand that civilians there have exhausted their scarce resources to face this devastation and I saw how the work carried out by volunteers, humanitarian organizations and local authorities is truly contributing to their dignity.”
