(UN News Centre) – 17 February 2017 – As the volatile conflict in eastern Ukraine enters its fourth year, one million children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance – nearly double the number this time last year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today. “This is an invisible emergency – a crisis most of […]
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(UNICEF) – Following intense fighting over the last two days around the town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, more than 17,000 people – including 2,500 children – are facing freezing weather without any heating, electricity or water. Six schools and four kindergartens have also closed in the area due to the violence, putting education on hold and […]
(Al Jazeera) – What Konstantine Zarubin and his childhood friend Edek didn’t realise that summer evening two years ago, was that the quarry in their hometown they were about to climb through had just been littered with landmines. It was a July evening in 2014, just months into an ongoing conflict between Moscow-backed rebels in country’s […]
