Ukraine

Displaced families and the elderly in Ukraine line up for WFP food vouchers, which enable them to obtain food including milk, fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat.
WFP/Abeer Etefa

Lack of jobs, money for rent, add to woes in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine, says UN agency

29 November 2017
As temperatures plummet across eastern Ukraine, many – including the elderly – who fled their homes following hostilities are forced to return to their original place of residence due to lack of jobs and money to pay rent in the places they were sheltering, the United Nations migration agency has reported.
Elderly people have been particularly hard hit by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
IOM/UN/Volodymyr Shuvayev

Clashes near vital infrastructure in eastern Ukraine may have 'grave' impact on population, UN warns

8 November 2017
Recent escalation of fighting in close proximity of critical infrastructure and services in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, could endanger over a million lives, the top United Nations official in the country has warned.