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First Person: On Ukraine’s frontlines, humanitarians risk all to bring hope
“Sometimes it feels like we’re swimming against a current that never slows down,” says Ms. Tiutiunnyk, an assistant external relations officer working in Ukraine for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Ms.Tiutiunnyk is herself a displaced person from Luhansk, forced to flee following the onset of hostilities. “I was not a part of the humanitarian community”,…
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More young lives lost in Ukraine, as UN chief repeats call for a ‘just, comprehensive and sustainable peace’
The development came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders arrived in Washington on Monday to meet President Donald Trump, who held talks on a possible peace deal to end the war with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Alaska last Friday. Responding to questions at the regular daily briefing in…
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UN upholds readiness to support peace efforts in Ukraine
Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s question about the meeting held the previous day between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald Trump, and several European leaders at the White House. It followed talks last week between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska. Engagement and dialogue “It’s…
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Ukraine: Toddler among four children killed in Russia’s attacks on Kyiv
The youngest victim of the bombing raid was two-and-a-half years old, according to the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, which released video footage showing smoke billowing from a Kyiv apartment block with a massive hole where its roof had been. Leading condemnation of the attacks, the UN Secretary-General said that targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure violated…
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Ukraine: ‘Diplomatic momentum’ at risk amid large-scale Russian strikes
Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, was speaking a day after the latest wave of Russian airstrikes across the country, with at least 23 people killed in the capital, Kyiv. “The mounting death toll and devastation caused by the intensifying fighting over the summer, run counter to the significant efforts…
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Finding strength amid sleepless nights: Ukraine’s hidden mental health toll
Speaking from the capital Kyiv which was rocked by some of the deadliest attacks of the war last week – and following a visit to the frontline region of Sumy – UN Women’s Representative in Ukraine Sabine Freizer Gunes described to UN News’s Nathalie Minard both the emotional exhaustion and the resilience she had witnessed. The…
