On Wednesday in Geneva, at the headquarters of the United Nations Refugee Agency, UN representatives launched an international appeal to raise funds to help the civilian population of Ukraine, affected by a large-scale Russian invasion. ladder. The UN aims to raise more than $5.6 billion to help the 11 million Ukrainians in war zones, affected by the destruction of civilian infrastructure or who have fled their homes and become refugees and displaced people during the last year of the war.
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, noted that there were even more people in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine – 18 million people, half the population that has remained there since the start of the war. Funds raised by the UN will go towards medical care, food, education, cash assistance and temporary protection for people in need.
“The results of this war are terrible,” Martin Griffiths told a press conference in Geneva. “According to our data, more than 7,000 civilians were killed in Ukraine. 12,000 civilians are injured. And that’s most likely an underestimate. There are hundreds of children among them.
The United Nations Agency for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid plans to raise $3.9 billion. UN Refugee Agency – 1.7 billion to help Ukrainian refugees in ten host countries – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has warned of the danger of “getting used to” what is happening in Ukraine.
“We shouldn’t (get used to it),” he said, “because what Russia is doing to this country is absolutely outrageous.”
Grandi stressed that the refugee and displaced persons crisis in Ukraine remains the most serious in the world.
“It is estimated that almost 6 million people have been internally displaced, and the number of officially registered refugees in Europe is almost 5 million. But we know that many have not registered, the displacement of people due to war is enormous,” Grandi told a press conference in Geneva.
650 partner organizations, mostly Ukrainian, will help distribute the funds raised inside Ukraine and outside the UN.
Due to the fighting on the front line, it is becoming more difficult and dangerous to deliver humanitarian aid to eastern and southern Ukraine. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said in New York on Wednesday that in the village of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region and in Kherson, two UN humanitarian aid warehouses were damaged in the aftermath of the bombardment. The day before, a UN humanitarian convoy delivered aid to the village of Konstantinopol in the Donetsk region. Assistance, including medical supplies lasting three months, was received by 1,200 civilians.
