Results of airstrikes and shelling of Zaporizhia in October 2022. (Archive) Ukraine: UN Emergency Relief Coordinator visits Zaporizhia Humanitarian aid
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher is visiting Zaporizhia. He reported this on his page on the X platform.
Fletcher visited areas affected by airstrikes and met with local residents. Noting that the attacks are causing “enormous damage to the civilian population,” the Emergency Relief Coordinator stressed that life there “goes on despite the war,” and parents are thinking about the future of their children. For example, classrooms have been created in bunkers 7 meters underground where children can safely receive an education.
Earlier, in an interview with the UN News Service, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Matthias Schmale noted that the population’s willingness to survive and even thrive in the conflict is evidence of its amazing resilience.
Shmale expressed hope that the UN’s commitment to support Ukrainians for as long as needed will help them believe in the future: “I see that people are starting to rebuild everything as soon as they can, be it a business, a home, or a life. The future begins as soon as the sirens stop. People do not want to leave.”
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UN humanitarian agencies continue to provide assistance to Ukrainians across the country. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says its teams are supporting 1.6 million people with food and cash.
Humanitarian workers are working in difficult and dangerous conditions. According to the WFP, food distribution points have been attacked 19 times over the past four months.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says an airstrike on Siversk has disrupted the distribution of humanitarian aid by a partner organization and local authorities. Two local residents were killed.
“UNHCR condemns this attack,” the organization said in a statement on the X platform.