Ukraine

A monitor from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine inspects damage to a building, 9 July 2014.
OSCE/Evgeniy Maloletka

Ukraine: Ban deplores planned holding of November ‘elections’ by rebel groups

29 October 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the planned holding by armed rebel groups in eastern Ukraine of their own “elections” on 2 November, calling the potential polls a “breach of the constitution and national law.”
A Ukrainian mother with her daughter and young friend in the room where she lives with her family at a centre for displaced people in Slavyansk.
UNHCR/E. Ziyatdinova

Amid uneasy ceasefire, Ukraine risks becoming ‘protracted’ conflict, UN officials warn

24 October 2014
The simmering conflict in Ukraine continues to take lives and exacerbate already precarious humanitarian conditions in the country’s Eastern regions, two senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today, as they warned that the situation risks turning into a “protracted low-intensity conflict.”
A Ukrainian family with their belongings after arriving at Kyiv by train. They had fled the violence in eastern Ukraine.
UNHCR/I. Zimova

Eastern Ukraine conflict continues to take heavy toll on civilians, UN report warns

8 October 2014
While the fragile month-long ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is a welcome step towards ending the conflict, armed groups continue to terrorize the population in areas under their control, pursuing killings, abductions, torture, ill-treatment and other serious abuses, the United Nations Human Rights Office said today as it released its latest report on the situation in the country.
An elderly returnee to Sloviansk, Ukraine, whose house was hit by artillery and needs major repairs, is comforted by a relative.
UNHCR/Iva Zimova

Ukraine: UN chief 'disturbed' by death of aid worker, dangerous surge in fighting

3 October 2014
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “saddened and disturbed” to learn of the death of an international humanitarian aid worker, killed when a shell landed near the International Committee of the Red Cross Headquarters in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.