Global Courant 2023-05-26 20:53:26
GENEVA
The UN said on Friday that humanitarian organizations have lost access to 60,000 people in Ukraine due to the deteriorating security situation on the front lines.
“Aid to areas under Russian military control has been extremely limited,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said at a UN briefing in Geneva.
“This year, due to the deteriorating security situation and frontline shifts, our humanitarian partners lost access to nearly 60,000 people in about 40 towns and villages close to the frontlines in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions,” Laerke said. said. .
He also said that OCHA and its humanitarian partners had helped 5.4 million people in Ukraine by the end of April this year.
He added that the figure is nearly 800,000 more than the total number of people assisted as of the end of March, and that more than 60% of those reached are women and girls.
According to the spokesperson, more than 2.1 million people received financial aid, 3.5 million people received food aid and nearly 3 million people had access to healthcare and medicines.
Regarding mine pollution, he said, it poses a threat to farmers, especially in agricultural areas such as Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kherson, where dozens of mine-related accidents are reported each month.
He said Ukraine’s losses due to mines and explosive remnants of war in 2023 were 263 dead or wounded, adding that the figure averaged more than 50 per month.
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