Drone strikes continue in residential areas of Ukraine. Ukraine: attacks lead to new casualties and damage to infrastructure Peace and Security
The fighting over the past weekend led to an increase in the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine, as well as widespread damage to the country’s critical infrastructure. This was reported on Monday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
From Friday until early Monday morning, according to Ukrainian authorities, more than ten civilians were killed, and over 70 more were injured, including two children. Interruptions in the supply of basic services were recorded in more than 270 settlements in Ukraine. conditions. Recent shelling has already led to interruptions in power supply and heating.
Almost daily attacks
The Odessa region has been especially affected, which is subject to almost daily attacks. On Friday, an overnight attack on port infrastructure killed eight civilians and wounded 27 people. Tens of thousands of people remain without electricity.
Due to damage to the energy infrastructure in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions, hundreds of thousands of people were also affected. Ukrainian authorities reported that as a result of the attack, a warehouse with humanitarian aid in the Nikolaev region was damaged. In addition, the attacks hit a medical facility and a school.
Funding deficit
In the Sumy region, over the past three days, about 40 people have been evacuated to safer areas, OCHA reported. Meanwhile, in the Donetsk region, about 330 civilians, including 50 children, were evacuated. thousands of people with limited mobility.
Humanitarian workers were able to provide assistance to 700 thousand people in areas near the line this year front. However, due to a lack of funding, more than a million people are left without clean water, and access to services for the protection of the population and assistance to victims of gender-based violence is limited. year a humanitarian plan for Ukraine worth 2.6 billion dollars received only about half of the funding – less than 1.4 billion dollars.